Surfing Waves

I was looking into different courier services for delivering boards throughout the UK and possibly to Ireland but i'm having a real job finding any that can send surfboards.

I did a search for topics about different couriers and came up with one called Interparcel which aren't too bad, only quoted me between £40 and £50 for next day delivery in the UK, takes about an extra day or two for deliveries to scotland but overall they are pretty good but can't deliver surfboards over to ireland.

I have tried a host of other couriers but they have constraint sizes on parcels and aren't able to send it. These are the ones I tried:
Parceline, City-Link, Interlink Express, Amtrak, Parcelforce, DHL, UPS, Night Freight, FedEx and Postvan. I did try TNT but they quoted me £180+ and thats not even for next day delivery! Also tried parcel2go but had some bad reviews about them so thought id give them a miss.

I assume it would be more expensive since it is a one-off delivery but many couriers wont even accept one-off deliveries either.

Anybody know of any other courier services? particularly ones who can deliver to ireland.

Thanks.

Is it you that phoned me in the shop? It is Interlink i use, perhaps its because i'm a business that they take my parcels.

northswell wrote:Is it you that phoned me in the shop? It is Interlink i use, perhaps its because i'm a business that they take my parcels.

Aye it was mate! Well Interlink can't deliver a 6' 8" surfboard at all! Just said that it was outside of their maximum constraints, didn't even ask if it was a one-off or not so had no luck with them.

Biggest i sent with them was a 7'2'' so i don't know why the difference.

northswell wrote:Biggest i sent with them was a 7'2'' so i don't know why the difference.

Ill phone them again about that then just to double check, what sort of price do they charge you?

£36 quid of the top of my head, i'm not rooting through the invoices again.

northswell wrote:£36 quid of the top of my head, i'm not rooting through the invoices again.

Thanks Northswell, you ever had any problems with them?

Nope, tho a delivery was smashed to feck today, good job it was just clothes.

Right, double checked with Interlink and they have said a positive No to shipping surfboards

TicTac, I bought my board online from Boardshop.co.uk, it's a 7'9" and the box it came in was well over 8ft. Maybe try ringing them to ask who they use?

sal wrote:TicTac, I bought my board online from Boardshop.co.uk, it's a 7'9" and the box it came in was well over 8ft. Maybe try ringing them to ask who they use?

Way ahead of you there, Boardshop use city-link who won't do one-off orders, they also use night freight but once again they don't do one-off orders.

ANC delivered my board and it was over 7' in the packaging and I paid £15 this was from Ebay.