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At PACK & SEND Reading, we specialise in professional furniture shipping services across RG postcodes and surrounding areas. Whether you're relocating within Reading, downsizing, or selling a vintage wardrobe, our team provides expert furniture packing, secure transport, and fully insured delivery tailored to your needs.
We safely move everything from antique chairs to contemporary flat-pack furniture. With professional care at every step, and optional loss and damage protection, your furniture is in trusted hands—wherever it’s going.
At PACK & SEND Reading, we provide secure, reliable, and tailored furniture packing and shipping services for individuals, collectors, and businesses throughout Reading (RG postcodes) and surrounding areas like Wokingham, Newbury, and Henley-on-Thames.
Whether you’re coordinating a house move, managing estate clearances, or sending auction purchases abroad, our specialists are trained to handle everything from fragile antiques to modular sofas. With more than 30 years of experience and a network of local and international couriers, we ensure every shipment is packed for maximum protection and delivered safely, wherever it’s headed.
Moving heavy, awkward, or delicate furniture across Reading and the surrounding region requires more than just muscle—it demands expertise. Our Reading team employs custom-built crates, cushioned foam-in-place packaging, and premium-grade materials to ensure your high-value items arrive in pristine condition.
From transporting a vintage cabinet to exporting a designer sideboard or a piano, we treat every piece with specialist care. Whether it’s domestic or international delivery, we streamline the process, so you don’t have to lift a finger.
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Whether it’s an heirloom oak dresser, an ergonomic designer chair, a modular sofa, or a bespoke cabinet, our furniture shipping service is designed for security, convenience, and total peace of mind. PACK & SEND Reading offers tailored solutions for everything from one-off item relocations to full household or commercial shipments moving overseas.
Every piece of fragile, large, awkward, or valuable (FLAV) furniture is carefully packed using specialist materials, custom-crated where necessary, and thoroughly documented for customs compliance and insurance. We manage end-to-end logistics for both domestic and international furniture transport, covering high-value, oversized, fragile, or unusually shaped items with the same expert attention. No matter how complex the move, we ensure your furniture is protected and delivered with care.
get a quoteWhen shipping furniture overseas from Reading, the last thing you want is for your consignment to be held up by missing or incorrect paperwork.
That’s why PACK & SEND Reading includes full support with customs documentation as part of our end-to-end international furniture shipping service. Whether you’re exporting a mid-century dining set to Canada or sending a vintage armoire from Reading to Australia, we take care of the export declarations, packing lists, and destination-specific forms required for a smooth customs clearance process.
While customs timelines vary by country, our team ensures every shipment is prepared, compliant, and ready for a hassle-free journey from Reading to anywhere in the world.
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Relocating abroad, outfitting a second home, managing an international office move, or sending cherished furniture to family overseas? Our international furniture delivery service is built for precision, protection, and peace of mind.
We handle everything from local collection from your home, office, or storage facility to expert export-standard packing and final-mile delivery to almost any destination worldwide. Every shipment includes real-time tracking, proactive updates, and optional loss or damage protection for high-value or sentimental pieces.
From a single designer chair to an entire household, we make international furniture shipping seamless, so you can focus on what matters, not the logistics.
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If you’d rather handle the packing yourself, our Online Self-Service option provides a flexible and budget-friendly alternative to our full-service furniture shipping.
Perfect for smaller or flat-pack items, such as bedside tables, office chairs, or modular shelving, it allows you to stay hands-on while benefiting from PACK & SEND Reading’s trusted global courier network.
You’ll take care of the packaging and documentation, and we’ll handle the shipping, tracking, and delivery logistics. Start with a free, instant quote and confidently ship your furniture—your way.
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PACK & SEND can arrange the safe and secure shipping of furniture to any location within the UK or internationally. Whether you’re moving a single item locally or relocating an entire home or office overseas, our furniture courier network covers national and global destinations.
We offer a range of furniture shipping options including:
Door-to-door courier delivery for domestic moves
Export and import freight for international shipments
White glove collection and delivery for fragile or high-value items
Your furniture can be shipped via road, air, or sea depending on your destination, timeframe, and budget.
Furniture delivery time depends on distance, service level, and destination.
UK deliveries: 1–5 working days
Europe: 3–10 days
Worldwide: From 5 days to several weeks for sea freight
Transit times may vary based on furniture size, packaging requirements, and customs clearance (for overseas shipping).
Yes. We offer professional furniture packing services at all UK service centres. This includes:
Custom wooden crates
Double-walled boxes
Foam-in-place protection
Wrapping and strapping for large or awkward items
Our expert packers ensure your furniture is fully protected during transit, regardless of shape, size, or fragility.
Yes. If you’re sending furniture overseas, PACK & SEND will help you complete all required customs documentation. Our team provides guidance on packing lists, declarations, and compliance requirements, ensuring a smooth clearance process and faster delivery times.
We can ship a wide variety of furniture including:
Sofas and armchairs
Dining tables and chairs
Antiques and heirlooms
Desks, bookcases, and wardrobes
Beds, mattresses, and modular units
We also handle custom-built installations and delicate designer pieces. Each item is assessed for the best packaging and transport solution.
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If you want to talk to somebody about your specialist packaging and delivery requirements, call us on 0345 873 999 0
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At PACK & SEND we know how important it is for you to reach all your international destinations via a single service provider.
We provide a wide range of options for your international shipping solutions to ensure that you can always find the service you need depending on the package that you need to send overseas.
PACK & SEND are truly the experts when it comes to custom packaging and crating those fragile, large, awkward and valuable items like computers, servers, artworks and antiques.
We specialise in accessing the right type of packaging for any item and using all other resources available to protect your shipment.
We take every care to make sure that your items stay safe during transit.
However, for complete peace of mind when you send your shipments domestically or internationally, we provide Warranty Service protection to cover you for loss or damage to your important shipments
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