Safest way to post a watch
Discussion
GALLARDOGUY said:
DPD have by far the best and most advanced tracking system. They've never lost a thing of mine.
Their tracking system is very good, but it doesn't account for the drivers that put through a calling card without even trying to deliver the parcel as happened to us last Friday. We were in the house, and they didn't even knock - we had to go and collect the parcel the following day despit paying for 1 day deliveryyeti said:
Kersh2312 said:
Hi the value £3000
I have a feeling Royal Mail Special Delivery only goes up to £1500 insured. That's the most I've been offered anyway. Yes you can up to items worth £2500
Edited by egor110 on Monday 25th November 21:33
Always used Royal Mail Special Delivery myself, never had any issues when posting watches out. You pay by the weight, size and, I think, declared value, and I thought they insured up to £2500.
Tip if you use RM - put the box in Royal Mail sealed silver plastic bag, I don't think that it costs any extra (never actually done it myself...) but it can be useful deterrent should anyone wish to take an interest in the contents before it gets to the recipient.
Tip if you use RM - put the box in Royal Mail sealed silver plastic bag, I don't think that it costs any extra (never actually done it myself...) but it can be useful deterrent should anyone wish to take an interest in the contents before it gets to the recipient.
CardShark said:
Always used Royal Mail Special Delivery myself, never had any issues when posting watches out. You pay by the weight, size and, I think, declared value, and I thought they insured up to £2500.
Tip if you use RM - put the box in Royal Mail sealed silver plastic bag, I don't think that it costs any extra (never actually done it myself...) but it can be useful deterrent should anyone wish to take an interest in the contents before it gets to the recipient.
Same here. If the true value is slightly over the max £2.5k just declare it as £2500 or else they may refuse it (in the T&C they won't accept items over the compensation level). I've sent literally hundreds of watches with them and never had a problem.Tip if you use RM - put the box in Royal Mail sealed silver plastic bag, I don't think that it costs any extra (never actually done it myself...) but it can be useful deterrent should anyone wish to take an interest in the contents before it gets to the recipient.
The silver bags / envelopes are free for asking at the counter and are well worth using. They're tough and give a nice professional look to the package for no real effort. Some offices used to have them on the shelves so you could grab a handful for future posting but all the ones round here seem to have stopped that recently.
yeti said:
Good info on here, didn't know you could bump it up to 2500. I don't fancy announcing it out loud in the post office though, either to the scrotes or the staff. Have given them watches before with 1500 insurance and they just leave them on the side for ages.
The reason they ask what your posting is too make sure you have the right level of cover.When you say they leave them on the side for ages,surely the staff are behind the bullet proof screen,so it's not going anywhere until posite collects from the post office?
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