Posting a fishing rod...

[Angrybear]

Fine BUT read your screen grab - For rolled and cylinder-shaped items, the length of the item plus twice the diameter must not exceed 104cm. The greatest dimension should be no more than 90cm

Yes, I know which contradicts the 1.5m size given above it for PF, but I have both received & posted tubes in the past using the 3m length & girth rule to the PO staff and all have been delivered with no issue.
one did once incur a manual handling charge of £3.95, but such is life.
Last one I received was in a Penn tube approx 180x70mm by PF48.

 

[Trampster]

I'm not sure about Parcelforce, but having worked for Royal Mail for 12 years, there is a reason they will not accept long parcels. All of the mail & parcels are sorted into trolleys/cages (called Yorks) on wheels to go to different destinations, which are then wheeled onto the respective truck. The internal dimensions of the York are 1285 x 606 x 800 mm, so anything longer than 1285mm is going to stick out the top.

Not a problem with the old single deck trailers, but with the majority of trailers now being double deck, the top deck is loaded first and then raised up to within about 50mm of the roof, and then the lower deck surface can be loaded. Anything stuck out of the top of the York trolley would collide with the roof, damaging the item, or the roof, or both.

 

[crablante]

Yes, I know which contradicts the 1.5m size given above it for PF, but I have both received & posted tubes in the past using the 3m length & girth rule to the PO staff and all have been delivered with no issue.
one did once incur a manual handling charge of £3.95, but such is life.
Last one I received was in a Penn tube approx 180x70mm by PF48.

That may be down to the PO staff not knowing the rules?

 

[Angrybear]

That may be down to the PO staff not knowing the rules?

Quite likely.

 

[stan m]

That may be down to the PO staff not knowing the rules?

Almost 100%. I regularily received tubes with fly blanks from Mick at Bloke rods (sadly gone, Mick not Bloke) From memory his always showed a post charge of under £4.00 however when I posted rod off in the same tube, (in UK) I was charged around £10-11, approx from memory. Was talking to Mick on phone and mentioned this he said to print off the PO rules and take a copy to local PO. This I did showing the twice daimeter thingie I posted above. She admitted she was not aware of the fact that tubes were measured different from other packages. She stuck my printout on the wall for other staff and thereafter I was charged under £4.00 a tube.

 

[Angrybear]

As a keen shooter I will say posting fishing rods is nothing compared to posting guns

 

[Kine262]

As a keen shooter I will say posting fishing rods is nothing compared to posting guns

That’s because you’re not supposed to put them through people’s letterboxes!