Courier service

[dylankeyter]

Can someone please suggest an affordable and reliable courier service to take a set of wheels from CT to Johannesburg?

[Racer X]

www.dawnwing.co.za

[FanieFiets]

www.greyowl.co.za 

[Racer X]

Hey fanie, your website has not been created yet.

[FanieFiets]

Hey fanie' date=' your website has not been created yet.[/quote']

 

 

demmit, will speak to the web desingers!
But seriously. Last time I send up a wheel, I took a bike box, filled with bubble wrap, foamalite, put lots of fragile stickers on and used SAPO. Insured.

[turtlek]

WWW.DCB.CO.ZA very cheap and very good because he is a cyclist himself

[Hog_]

Just remember to take the skewers out of the wheels when you pack them in the wheel box, otherwise they'll punch through the side.

 

 

 

[Johan Bornman]

I mail wheels all over the country (and neighbouring coutries) all the time and always use the Post Office. I have never lost a wheel nor had one damaged. I've had delays. Recently I sent one to Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape and had it delivered to the Stutterheim suburban post office in Durban. Made me wonder whey I supplied a postal code. Nevertheless, the wheel eventually arrived.

 

The trick is to make a good box. Find a moerse large box somewhere and cut two discs about 20mm in dia larger than the wheel itself.

Also cut a looooong strip of board about 50mm wide.

 

Now cut a radius from the centre to the outside in each disc and fold it in like a chinese hat. Tape the cut and thus secure the conical shape.

 

Now take all four your hands and with packaging tape, tape the strip right around the outside of one of the two hats.

 

Cut 2 x 20mm lengths of 50mm PVC drain pipe and place those over each end of the hub and tie with string. This will ensure that the hub doesn't punch a hole through the box.

 

Put the skewers in some newspaper (bubble wrap is so eco unfriendly) inside, put the wheels in and put the other hat on the other side.

 

Tape the whole lot up, write the address on and go to the post office.

 

At the post office, cut a slot in the box large enough for the invoice that you forgot to include and "post" that inside your box. Seal this up with sellotape from the Spar next door.

 

Get a tracking number and send that to your recipient via e-mail as soon as you get home. That puts the entire onus of tracking and wondering in his/her hands. Rest assured. Your box will get there.