BoxSpeed in numbers

Figures for anyone writing about BoxSpeed, comparing services, or checking a claim. Updated 2026-09-12. Sources are linked where they are not ours.

Service

• BoxSpeed collects, stores and returns boxes and belongings for households and small businesses across mainland Britain.
• Coverage: 117 postcode areas, 2708 postcode districts, 1383 post towns, every mainland region of England, Scotland and Wales. Not served: Northern Ireland (BT), the Scottish islands (HS, KW, ZE), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
• Population covered: about 61.2 million people, 99.8 percent of Great Britain (2011 census by postcode area).
• Model: one fixed weekly collection and return day per postcode area. Monday the Midlands (10 areas), Tuesday the North West, East Anglia and Wales (26), Wednesday London and the South East (30), Thursday the North, Yorkshire and Scotland (28), Friday the South West, the South Coast, South Wales and the North of Scotland (19), Saturday Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley (4).
• Storage location: a secure, alarmed warehouse in Oxfordshire, England.
• Crew: two people at every collection and return.
• Operator: the PianoSpeed group, Oxfordshire.

Prices (inc VAT)

• Standard box £7.95 a month (boxes 11 to 20 £6.95, from box 21 £5.95); large box or suitcase £11.95; named item £14.95; bulky item £24.95.
• Cap: £99 a month per 250 cu ft or part. Minimum £29 a month. One month minimum term.
• Collection £39; return £39 to any mainland address; stairs above the first floor £20 a stop.
• Cover £100 an item included; £500 an item optional.
• Passes: Student Summer Pass £329; Rotation Pack £449; Executor's Pack £599.

Market context

• UK self storage turnover reached £1.3bn in 2025 across 3,143 stores and 67.5m sq ft, at 74.5 percent occupancy (SSA UK and Cushman & Wakefield Annual Industry Report 2026).
• Domestic customers are 76 percent of demand; the top reasons are lack of space (27 percent), moving house (22 percent) and a life event (14 percent) (same report).
• Five percent of UK adults used self storage in 2025 (Statista, January 2026).
• 2.86 million students were enrolled at UK universities in 2024/25, 685,565 of them international (HESA, January 2026).
• 77,000 resident doctors work in the NHS in England; foundation placements rotate every four months with the main changeover on the first Wednesday in August (DHSC, UKFPO).
• 570,988 deaths were registered in England and Wales in 2025 (ONS, May 2026).