Selling items in a poster tube

[richard26wolf]

Advice needed please!

I have various rolled posters that I'd like to start selling on eBay and wanted to check to see if 90cm poster tubes are Ok to send via Simple Delivery with Royal Mail and if so which size/weight to select.

If anyone has direct experience of sending poster tubes recently with Simple Delivery / Royal Mail it would be great to get feedback. 

Many thanks 

[**peaseblossom**]

For Simple Delivery you'd be looking for the "Bulky" item postage which allows for items to be up to 120 cms long.   Their medium postage option only goes up to 60 cms.     Unfortunately the bulky option is not available for a lot of categories.   Why ebay have limited it goodness only knows.    The alternative is to use the Oversize option where you can buy your own postage away from ebay and SD.    That also is not available in all categories but it is in Collectables > Advertising Collectables, if that's any use to you.   If not you have to use trial and error during the listing process.

[richard26wolf]

Thank you. 

Does anyone else have direct experience of selling posters? Just wondered how you tended to go about it in terms of postage rates? 

[str11p]

You can send them using Simple Delivery using Evri at Evri parcel shops:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/posting-items/setting-postage-options/simple-delivery?id=5575#se...

When listing select the correct weight option, and ignore the size - it's fine as long as

"No side exceeds 120cm in length, the volume is no more than 245cm. (To calculate the volume, add together the two shortest sides and multiply it by two, and then add the length)"

You will likely need to turn off all other carriers here https://www.ebay.co.uk/ship/prf/simpledelivery

and even then you might get a non-Evri label which would be useless (if you paid for the Simple Delivery postage you could "request" it to be refunded) - see https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Postage/opted-out-of-royal-mail-in-simple-delivery-but-keep-getting/...

[insidethe93]

Sorry I can't answer your question.

Poster tubes can be desirable items in their own right. They can also be pricey for what they are. I'm  sure you won't forget to factor their cost into the item price so that you don't £lose out.

Poster tubes are widely available these days and a lot cheaper. But years ago they were almost more valuable than the posters e.g. good for storing wrapping paper in.

(I'm told the shorter poster tubes are good for sending a dead red squirrel to the lab for a post-mortem, as part of the Save Our Squirrels campaign - S.O.S.)