Cheapest Courier for long cardboard tube

[Rollin]

I need to do a return to a shop. The items are contained in a cardboard tube 250cm by 10cm.
Weight is about 3kg and worth about £70.
Who would be the cheapest courier to send stuff like this with?

[Doofus]

Look at Parcel Monkey or somethig. DX will seem cheap, but they are absolute st at collecting on the day they say they will. l

[Rollin]

OK thanks.
Tried that and cheapest is £45.

[Doofus]

Rollin said:

OK thanks.
Tried that and cheapest is £45.

How did they send it to you in the first place?

[Rollin]

Tuffnells for £9, but for me to use them to send it back would cost £45.

[TooMany2cvs]

Rollin said:

I need to do a return to a shop.

Why aren't they arranging the collection?

[227bhp]

You could always Google it yourself and find a broker like Parcel2go.
It's the insurance which hikes it up, that's how they make their money as 99% of parcels get there.

[Rollin]

I have used parcel monkey, which appears to be a broker, and its £45

[Rollin]

TooMany2cvs said:

Rollin said:

I need to do a return to a shop.

Why aren't they arranging the collection?

They are not being cooperative.
I can get a refund of return postage via Paypal up to £15 so wanted to return item first and then argue about them breaking DSR (related to restocking fees) later.

[RizzoTheRat]

This may sound stupid, but check the costs for sending a large box of slightly shorter dimensions. A friend discovered some years ago that it was cheaper to send his long thin parcel diagonally across a large box than it was to send it in a tube, as it meant the maximum length was less but increasing the width didn't add to the cost.

(ie >1m tube in a <1x1x1m box)

[Mr Pointy]

Is this really 2.5m long? That's why it's expensive.