Good courier companies and where to buy packing materials.

[S3M]

So I'm moving some of my stuff from Edinburgh and sending it back down south.

As I can't driver I'm looking to sent it down via courier, just wondering who's a good courier to use, City Link seem to be the front runners at the moment as I know quite a few people who use them and their prices seem quite reasonable. I'm avoiding parcel farce at all costs due to past experiences.

Also anyone know where a good place to get boxes from is, as I'm looking to ship some board games down and the selection I saw in Ryman's and the post office was pretty rubbish with nothing being big enough to ship them in or even wrap them in.

[Flabio]

For boxes, I've used www.mad4boxes.co.uk before in the past, pretty quick service.

[Lyris]

I use www.parcel2go.com a lot, they let you choose between couriers - DHL have never let me down but I think they're "YODEL" now. Also if you use the code FACEBOOKAUGUST3 then you supposedly get 7.5% off - but that may have been a one-day-only thing.

[koopatroopa90]

Only thing with p2g is I've heard horror stories when things do go missing/get damaged. That said I've used them a fair few times without issue. I think the problem is as they act as the middle man when a problem occurs you get passed from them to the courier and back again with neither party taking the blame.

[S3M]

Cheers for the suggestions so far, ideally I was hoping to be able to find a good shop that sell boxes.

[Flabio]

The site I linked delivers your boxes next day...

[chojin]

another vote for parcel2go here... i've used them on numerous occasions, shipping everything from a SuperGrafx to Italy, to alloy wheels worth ?1300 to the other end of the uk, not a single problem.. only thing I would say is the insurance, they charge you a percentage of the total value which is a bit crafty if you ask me..

[Lyris]

Only thing with p2g is I've heard horror stories when things do go missing/get damaged. That said I've used them a fair few times without issue. I think the problem is as they act as the middle man when a problem occurs you get passed from them to the courier and back again with neither party taking the blame.

It happened to me once and they didn't seem very organised. I did get my money back eventually though.

[speedlolita]

Parcelmonkey is my favourite.

City Link Next Day for ?7ish and they come and get it.

I used to use Parcel2go but have used parcelmonkey since discovering them.

http://www.parcelmonkey.co.uk/

[S3M]

Cheers Guys for the help,

Trying to find a good suitcase store as well but looks like it's going to be John Lewis.