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Posting high value items to Europe

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:52 pm
by zappy-chops
Hi folks. I want to send an expensive watch to France. Value is £30k. All the usual suspects (UPS, DHL, Royal Mail, .... blah blah) won't do it. They either have £10k insurance value limit or will only send uninsured because it's a watch (or any jewellery for that matter) - so despite their sole existence being to take parcels from A to B, if they stuff it up and it ends up at C and gets lost then they will only refund the postage!

Anyone have experience of this. High value stuff moves around, so how is everyone else doing it? Thought I had nailed it when I found the UPS Declared Value service, only to discover that watches over $500 are prohibited.

Grrrrrrr.

Cheers, :beerchug:

Re: Posting high value items to Europe

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:19 pm
by HPsauce
Take it yourself, that's what I'd do.

Re: Posting high value items to Europe

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:25 pm
by zappy-chops
Yep, thought that would be the first response. Just don't have the time, but may have to. Anyway, there still has to be a way to post it insured. There has to be!

Re: Posting high value items to Europe

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 8:47 am
by don0301
Took me all of 30s to find this....

https://www.mbe.co.uk/parcel

Re: Posting high value items to Europe

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 9:08 am
by zappy-chops
don0301 wrote:
Sat Sep 14, 2019 8:47 am
Took me all of 30s to find this....

https://www.mbe.co.uk/parcel
Aha - thanks. Forgot about these guys. Must have tried everyone but them. I'll take a look.