posting cylinder shaped parcels with simple delivery

[mr_aitch]

hello - i want to sell some unfolded posters and dispatch them rolled up in cardboard cylinders. the simple delivery rules all seem to be about box shaped parcels. i seem to remember a while back that royal mail had unfathomable rules for cylinders that where different to those for boxes. how does simple delivery deal with cylinders? how do i determine what size box my cylinders would be equivalent to?

thanks for any help.

[moldosgifts]

Ive sold some poster (not on simple delivery) i just recorder them a small to medium parcel. They've been delivered fine. 

So i assume it would be similar using simple delivery.

[thepillenwerfer]

Simple Delivery will take anything up to the maximum size carried by the service used.  For a cylinder sent by Royal Mail "the length of the item plus twice the diameter must not exceed 104cm, with the greatest dimension being no more than 90cm."

Just use whatever e-Bay recommends and you (or the Buyer) won't be liable for any under-payment.

[dancewithadingo]

Good Evening mr_aitch

You should be able to send them using simple delivery. In the unlikely event that you can't then simply send them Royal Mail 48 Tracked and Signed For  (in a tube).

Mr A if you are worried about using a postal tube then approach your local golf club and ask the pro if he has a long, thin square box that he has received a golf club in.  He will no doubt have a number of discarded ones that he will be only too willing to let you have.

[porte2425]

Yes, I really don't think Royal Mail like tubes. (I have a vague recollection of reading something a while back that they need to be handled manually, as they roll off conveyor belts.) Basically any tube/roll goes as a Medium parcel rate with RM; but tubes can be up to 90cm (at 7cm diameter or less), compared to 61cm for boxes. The couple of times I have sent a postage tube it would fit under a small parcel size, so I put them in a plastic bag, because I wasn’t going to pay a Medium parcel rate.

As you say, Simple Delivery doesn't seem to mention posting tubes, so I would treat them as a box. Evri allow up to 120cm anyway for a parcel. But, you have to check with your local drop off point. A number of people have reported not being able to post items even greater than 60cm with Evri, because apparently the driver that collects cannot take anything longer.