NEAREST PARCEL DROP BOX

[ctovey]

Does anyone know where the nearest Royal Mail parcel drop box to Ivanhoe Road is located? According to the Royal Mail website, its on the corner of Ivanhoe Rd and Avondale Rise, however, although my parcel is within the size limit of a large letter, the post box is at least 2 inches too small. Does anyone know if any of the local post offices have parcel drop boxes? If not I will have to traipse down to the sorting office at Camberwell Green or arrange pickup at extra cost. Thanks

[ianr]

According to https://www.royalmail.com/d8/parcel-post-boxes "The maximum Parcel size allowed into our new Postboxes is 44cm x 35cm x 16cm", and the nearest one I can see listed there is probably Milkwood Road, SE24. Or are there different types of them?

PS After struggling with the RM website I see that there's a priority post box (as designated for collection of completed virus test kits) at the location you mention. Which doesn't help you, I know.

[elloriac]

Our post office (Forest Hill Road) has a parcel drop area. Could you not drop it on the main one on Lordship Lane? If you've put postage on it already, you should be able to skip the queue and go in to drop it off.

[ctovey]

According to the Royal Mail website, because the parcels are 48 hour tracked, I can't take them to a post office! Don't ask me why. Think I will give it a try though.

[ctovey]

Hi IANR - thanks for the info. Unfortunately, most of the post boxes in my locality are designated 'priority' and parcel drop boxes, but they all seem to be standard size!

[Reg Smeeton]

I've stopped sending parcels from the Post Office. Book online, print off the label, and DPD can pick up the parcel from your home or, if you want to do it a bit cheaper, you can drop your parcel at various places locally including Food & Wine 141 Lordship Lane. I dropped off a 4kg parcel on Tuesday and it was delivered on Thursday, and cost me less than ?10 I think. (Hermes et al also do similar, you'd need to check online which shops they pick up from).

[Trinnydad]

Reg Smeeton Wrote:

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> I've stopped sending parcels from the Post Office.

> Book online, print off the label, and DPD can

> pick up the parcel from your home or, if you want

> to do it a bit cheaper, you can drop your parcel

> at various places locally including Food & Wine

> 141 Lordship Lane. I dropped off a 4kg parcel on

> Tuesday and it was delivered on Thursday, and cost

> me less than ?10 I think. (Hermes et al also do

> similar, you'd need to check online which shops

> they pick up from).

Best stay away from Hermes. They are the cheapest but they lose at lot of parcels. They fake signatures and falsify the tracking. Cheap is not cheerful with them. Save yourself the grief, pay a ?1 extra and go with UPS or DPD.