First, thank you hatterboy for buying the scope and your understanding.

Hoping to make it easier for my wife when posting a scope I had sold via this forum, I bought and paid for ‘Tracked 24’ online at the Royal Mail website. My wife went to drop it off, to be told it has to be taken to the Sorting Office - yep, I didn’t read the website properly. Following morning I drove 15 miles to the Sorting Office, it closed a 10am. So next day I go again and successfully dropped it off.

Lesson learned, be sure the service you choose online can be dropped off at the local Post Office. In this case I used £12 of petrol just because I hoped to save my wife the hassle of paying for it in the Post Office, but worst of all was the delay in sending the scope - my apologies to hatterboy.