Records are not fragile in the usual sense. They are heat-sensitive and heavy, and that combination shapes every delivery decision here.
The four options
Courier — the default, with a proper record mailer. Your own delivery — genuinely good locally, because you control the heat and the handling. Pickup — the right answer for crates and for scarce pressings. Buyer arranges — for whole collections.
What decides it
Weight and heat. A single LP is manageable; ten is a heavy parcel. And vinyl warps, so a parcel that sits in the sun comes out bent whatever the packing did. Packing records.
You cannot control the van, so control what you can: avoid posting into the worst of the afternoon, and for anything scarce offer collection.
Combining wins
Records combine by volume easily and by weight quickly. Combining is on by default and you set what each later win adds — work out the weight of five before the show, not after somebody has won five.
When collection is the honest answer
For crates, for anything genuinely scarce, and in the hottest months. Collection is also how many record sellers do their best business, because buyers like to look through what else is there.
Pickup terms are agreed before bidding with a collect-by window. If it is not collected the store keeps a share — 7% by default, 20% at most. How pickup works.
Questions people ask
Should I ship records inside their sleeves?
Never. Disc beside the jacket, not inside it.
Is a flat rate sensible?
Only per-record with a weight rule behind it. One LP and ten are different parcels.
What dispatch window?
Shorter is better in summer. A record that waits two days in a warm room has already had a journey.
More: setting up delivery, selling records.