Where do you go for your large parcels? I am clearing out my parents house and my sister in Australia has asked for medium sized framed oil painting that she gave my parents before she moved to Australia. Its about 87cmX56 cmX6cm (couple of other smaller pieces included) and weighs about 7.8 kilos. I have looked up UPS and they appear to have dropping off centres. Are there any other recommended shipping company's?

I like UPS but there is also Fedex and DHL.

I forgot to add GLS. They have delivered quite a lot of stuff from Germany to me quickly. I have not been responsable for their bills but I would imagine they are reasonable.

Thanks for all the replies. In the end I just used the post office. For my own packages I send via the prepaid Colissimo. I have received one (29/6) and still awaiting on the other. Send on 18th June. The other I just send by their normal package delivery service as it was a large portfolio with a couple of pictures in it. Send on the same day to Australia and my sister received it on the same day as I travelled back to the US - 25th undamaged due to my excellent packaging

The Collissimo package was pretty battered and was retaped by la Poste with a little card inside saying the following - nous avons constate la détérioration de l'emballage de votre colis et l'avons reconditionne afin de vous livrer dans les meilleures conditions
avec nos sentiments dévoués.

Nothing was missing from the package.

I suspect the 2nd package is even more battered as it contained more and the boxes are not well constructed with big gaps, so they are difficult to tape up. Hopefully that arrives fully in tact. I don't intend to visit France again for a while, if ever, but if I to was to send a package again, I would just get my own box and taped it up.