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Lesson Learnt. Rod Posting

Terry Harman said:
when i have posted rods i go to B&Q and buy a length of 4”guttering down pipe (about £5) and pack the rod in bubble wrap inside the pipe
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Think you may also find that some couriers have stipulations of packing type - i.e. cardboard.

Cheers
Bob
 
Richard Isaacs said:
Mark has no problem with you collecting them from him. Rods of that value it’s definitely worth the road trip. I’ve picked every rod up I’ve ordered from him. He’s flexible too with weekends and evenings if you give him notice.
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ditto it’s all part of the excitement of getting new rods
 
Richard Isaacs said:
They broke it through a plastic thick walled tube? That would take some real force. Are you sure your buyer isn’t pulling a fast one on you
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Well showed me pictures.

And no marks on the tube. I believe that it was smashed flat down causing the two heavier pieces to crack against each other. Despite the wrapping and rod bag.

The buyer said white marks inside the rod bag where it snapped the sections. Presume the flex of the tip section probably saved it.
 
Graham Elliott said:
Well showed me pictures.

And no marks on the tube. I believe that it was smashed flat down causing the two heavier pieces to crack against each other. Despite the wrapping and rod bag.

The buyer said white marks inside the rod bag where it snapped the sections. Presume the flex of the tip section probably saved it.
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Possible I suppose!! It just sounds like that would be extremely hard to squash or bend without a tremendous amount of force applied. I could slam my car door on one of those thick plastic tubes and struggle to do it much harm.
 
UPS Drivers are total a****oles. Nearly got taken out by one today who came straight through red lights at me. I’m hoping the email I sent got to the right persons inbox although I suspect it’s a franchised operation and they will absolve any responsibility for “external contractors” or similar.
 
from my own experience, I found those plastic and thick cardboard tube protects the rod well. Most of my rod were broken during the house moving last year. I putted most of them in the rod sleeves and laid on floor of the van, somehow, a box of books dropped on them and smashed most of my rods. The three survivors were in the plastic and cardboard tubes, I can see the drop left marks on the tube, but they protected my rod well.
 
Might be worth looking at Shipley for rods, most on it are people with vans/ cars trying to make a few quid and would probably take much better care of them.
 
Here's an idea that might work for members. As barbel anglers, we cover many areas of the country and often travel miles to fish. Add to that the journeys we do for work/family and we probably already have a network that could deliver rods, be it in stages or over a few weeks. For example, I'm in Leeds, my children work in London and I have relatives near Lymington in Hampshire. If someone dropped a rod off with me and paid any extra fuel money required to cover the cost of a diversion en route, I'd drop it off for them. The same for if I was to collect a rod for someone. It requires an element of trust but may be worth a shot.
 
There probably has to be a need for a specialist service for items such as this in all logistic companies. The goods would be transported individually in smaller vans. The items could be delivered by the customer to the depot to a special holding bay. There has to be loads of other high value and or delicate items that need a 5 star handling service.
 
I used to send rods all over mainly ups till they hiked the price, Hermes will only post up to 120cm but as far as I know fishing rods aren't on their no compensation list, always used a bit of down pipe from wicks mainly and it would take a lot of abuse before breaking, seams like we are going back to the dark ages courior wise . Most rods I've bought recently have been delivered by royal mails parcelforce 24 or 48 service ,including a 2 piece 15ft Anyfish beachcaster, and a 17ft acoylite, not good when muppets smash a new rod before its even used with now,t back either .
 
Richard Isaacs said:
Mark has no problem with you collecting them from him. Rods of that value it’s definitely worth the road trip. I’ve picked every rod up I’ve ordered from him. He’s flexible too with weekends and evenings if you give him notice.
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Yeah I appreciate that’s the preferable option, but an entire day spent driving over 400 miles didn’t really appeal. I ended up buying some factory build Hi S instead, which I love so all ended well.
 
Alex Dalton said:
I used to send rods all over mainly ups till they hiked the price, Hermes will only post up to 120cm but as far as I know fishing rods aren't on their no compensation list, always used a bit of down pipe from wicks mainly and it would take a lot of abuse before breaking, seams like we are going back to the dark ages courior wise . Most rods I've bought recently have been delivered by royal mails parcelforce 24 or 48 service ,including a 2 piece 15ft Anyfish beachcaster, and a 17ft acoylite, not good when muppets smash a new rod before its even used with now,t back either .
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Never use hermes. Total shambles. I worked 5 days for them before Christmas. Feel sorry for some of the people who do work there..... On 2nd thoughts, no I don't.
The whole industry needs regulating.
 
Sorry to hear about your courier experience Graham🙁. The list of restrictions left me wondering what is the point of UPS?Around us Hermes have a reputation for being hopeless - lucky if you receive your goods at all, broken or otherwise. I’ve received quite a few rods via courier over the years and never had one broken. Just lucky perhaps, although from memory most were delivered by Royal Mail. Guess worth checking which courier suppliers use from now on.
 
Rod Fowler said:
Sorry to hear about your courier experience Graham🙁. The list of restrictions left me wondering what is the point of UPS?Around us Hermes have a reputation for being hopeless - lucky if you receive your goods at all, broken or otherwise. I’ve received quite a few rods via courier over the years and never had one broken. Just lucky perhaps, although from memory most were delivered by Royal Mail. Guess worth checking which courier suppliers use from now on.
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Im a postman of many years,i regularly deliver tarantulas and freshwater crabs to a couple of my customers via special delivery, and they all seem to get through unscathed lol, i have also seen a Hermes depot whilst delivering myself, wtf !!!
 
Just wondering which courier is the one of choice for the big online tackle retailers?
I’m guessing they must have sorted the wheat from the chaff, unless they just factor in a certain amount of lost or damaged rods into their pricing?

Whenever I’ve sold any rods on I’ve always done local collection only. I know that this limits the potential buyers but there’s enough of us anglers buying stuff on eBay to ensure that listings reach a decent enough price. Given the potential risks then I’d rather an item sell for a few quid less and not have the risks or agg of packaging and posting. It also seems that most buyers don’t mind putting in some mileage to collect what they’re after. My brother drove from Ruislip to Liverpool to collect a Fox barbel rod and I had a buyer collect a Fox Horizon Marker rod I sold who came from Leeds to Bedford to collect in person.
 
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