How to get oversized items delivered

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The last few weekends I’ve been coerced into doing a fair amount of collections for my neighbour, who is a prolific eBay buyer. The trouble is he keeps buying items which are too big for standard couriers so I end up collecting them with him.

A couple of weeks ago it was a new fridge freezer, last weekend it was a replacement engine for his landrover as his had dropped a valve. They’re just not the sort of product that can be shipped on a normal courier contract.

I’m not alone either, at any one time there are over 930,000 items listed on eBay which are available for local collection, usually due to their oversized nature. At the same time a quarter of all lorries and vans travelling on British roads do so completely empty.

A new website, shiply.com, aims to match goods with hauliers already travelling along a similar route. By giving work to vehicles that would otherwise be empty, users of Shiply can expect significant savings.

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