Posting Ebay Items-Large Roman Blinds

[Chasingcars]

Hi, I use ebay a lot to sell. Can anyone suggest best and cheapest courier to send roman blinds? I use collect+ for most of my parcels but there maximum is a box size... And roman blinds are quite long and thin rather than square!

[EDDIE51]

MyHermes are less strict on size. I sent a large video/film screen in a long tube, It was too long for collectplus but Myhermes had no problem with it.

[silliemillie]

I use Hermes too but one item was too long and heavy so I used UPS, they were good,

[EDDIE51]

UPS is good but very expensive compared to Collectplus and Hermes.
My daughter has just started as a delivery driver for Hermes. Some of the parcels are very large 4 or 5 ft long and 2 or 3 ft wide. One was a bulk pack of 120 toilet rolls you can imagine how big that was!

[fiction-factory]

There was a puzzle based on this when i was at school. How do you post a 9 ft pole when the maximum item length is 8ft. (Shows how old the puzzle is- pre metric). The answer was put it diagonally in a box 8ft long. A bit of 3d pythagoras will help you work out the width and depth needed.