https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Postage/Sending-an-item-special-delivery/m-p/7978351#M66755 <P>I note your fun smiley/star but at the risk of being boring and of telling you how to 'suck your giant egg', don't forget that Royal Mail and most UK couriers usually accept non‑rectangular and non-cuboid parcels. But their systems and pricing and delivery-timing are designed around box-shaped (rectangular/cubic) items, so those are effectively preferred, as they're more easily measured, they stack, and generally move easily and cheaply through mail-sorting equipment and automated systems.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>That's why RM defines services and prices assuming parcels are measured as length × width × depth of a box. Cylinders and tubes have separate measurement rules, so they're accepted but are treated as awkward shapes. RM says custom/irregular boxes can be harder to handle and may incur different pricing and/or manual handling. I don't want to RM to delay, so rather than spend ages packaging postable odd-shaped items I just make a rectangular cuboid/cuboid box.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The fate of egg-shaped Humpty Dumpty was because he had a great fall...into some mail-sorting equipment.</P> Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:11:27 GMT insidethe93 2025-12-29T13:11:27Z