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Large banner delivery adds a flat £15 to an order, once, if the basket holds a banner with any side past 3 m, or a board that won’t fit inside an A0 sheet. One oversize item or five, it’s still £15 in total. The money pays for a courier that handles awkward, lengthy parcels, and the charge shows in your basket before you pay, so there are no surprises at the door.
Two quick tests before you order #
Take the size you’re about to pick (custom sizes are checked exactly like listed ones) and run it through whichever test fits.
Test 1: flexible items (banners, mesh, fabric)
Look only at the longest side. Is it more than 3000 mm? Then it’s oversize. The short side doesn’t matter at all. Exactly 3000 mm is fine; 3001 mm is not.
Test 2: rigid items (any printed board, Correx included)
Picture a sheet of A0 paper: 841 mm by 1189 mm. Can your board sit inside it, turned whichever way suits? If yes, no charge. If either side pokes out, it’s oversize. With boards, width catches people out as often as length.
What neither test covers
The rule is only about banners and rigid boards. Nobody measures your roller banner stand, flag, stickers, posters or stationery against it.
Large banner delivery: real sizes, worked through #
Here’s where the line falls for sizes people order all the time.
| Pays £15? | Item | Size | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| No | The 3 m × 1 m banner | 9 ft 10 in × 3 ft 3 in (3000 × 1000 mm) | Hits 3 m on the nose without going past it |
| No | A tall 3 m banner | 9 ft 10 in × 6 ft 7 in (3000 × 2000 mm) | The 2 m side never counts |
| Yes | The 10 ft × 3 ft banner | 3048 × 914 mm | Just 48 mm too long |
| Yes | The 4 m × 1 m banner | 13 ft 1 in × 3 ft 3 in (4000 × 1000 mm) | A whole metre past the line |
| Yes | A full-panel Heras mesh banner | 10 ft 10 in × 5 ft 11 in (3300 × 1800 mm) | Made to cover a fence panel, which takes it 300 mm past 3 m |
| No | A board at half a metre by one metre | 500 × 1000 mm | Turned upright, it sits inside A0 |
| No | A board at 700 by 1000 | 700 × 1000 mm | Fits inside A0 with room to spare |
| Yes | A square board | 1000 × 1000 mm | Short enough, but 159 mm too wide for A0 |
| Yes | A hoarding panel | 8 ft × 4 ft (2440 × 1220 mm) | Past A0 on both sides |
The 3 m and 10 ft rows are the ones to stare at. They look almost identical on a railing, yet one ships at the normal rate and the other doesn’t.
The exemption: street Correx #
A handful of Correx lines are long on purpose yet travel without the special courier, so the £15 never applies to them. The exempt list: fence top signs at 3410 × 525 mm, triangle signs made from A1 Correx, lamp-post wraps, toblerone signs and bollard covers. So a fence top sign, at over 3.4 m, still goes out on normal delivery.
How the £15 sits alongside other delivery costs #
- It’s charged once per order. A basket with a pair of 4 m banners plus a hoarding panel adds £15, not three lots of it.
- It stacks on the standard rate. UK mainland delivery is £7.95 per order, so an order under £100 with an oversize item pays £7.95 plus £15.
- It survives free delivery. Once your goods total reaches £100 after discount codes, the £7.95 disappears but the £15 stays. Your delivery line then reads “Free UK mainland delivery + oversize courier £15”.
- It can sit next to the Highlands surcharge. Mainland Scottish Highlands postcodes add £10 once per order, and both can appear on the same order.
Every charge is listed on the delivery page.
Getting under the limit (only if it still works) #
Changing size to dodge large banner delivery only makes sense if the smaller size still does the job. A banner too short for the railing is a worse deal than £15.
- Measure the real space. Plenty of people pick 10 ft × 3 ft for a gap that is really 3 m. A 3 m × 1 m banner fills it and ships at the normal rate. The measuring guide shows how.
- Use two banners. A pair of 2 m banners can cover a 4 m railing. That suits two separate messages, say a logo on one and a phone number on the other. For a single continuous design the gap will show.
- Rotate the board. If you need roughly 1 m of height, 1000 × 700 mm or 1000 × 500 mm ships normally; 1000 × 1000 mm doesn’t.
- Put all the big stuff in one basket. Because the charge is per order, one order with three large items costs less in delivery than three separate orders.
What happens to a large banner delivery on the road #
Oversize parcels go with a courier geared up for lengthy loads. Big banners get rolled into long boxes, and hefty panels may travel on a pallet. Courier delivery usually takes 1 to 3 working days after dispatch, and you get a tracking email when the order leaves.
A few things make the day go smoothly:
- Have someone around to sign.
- Add a checkout note about access, for example a site gate with fixed opening hours or no room for a big van.
- Line up a helper. A long box or a stack of 8 ft × 4 ft panels is awkward for one person, and the HSE’s manual handling guidance is worth a skim if you’re unloading heavy boards on site.
- Open and check everything soon after it arrives, and report any damage within 48 hours with photos.
Outside the mainland #
The £15 figure is a UK mainland price. Northern Ireland, the Scottish islands, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight are quoted before you order, and that quote covers large items too; delivery to the Highlands, islands and Northern Ireland explains how. Not sure whether your large banner delivery counts as oversize? Ask through get a quote before you pay.