New postal charge experiences

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4T5

4T5

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I thought it may be a good idea to post our new postal charge experiences down.
Hopefuly this will provide a good guide for those sending items through M&M as a lot of it is the same kind of gear.

I sent a game out yesterday in a cut down jiffy bag that cost me £1.33

I sent a Logi wheel/pedal set & game out in a cut down box weighing in at 3.5kg it cost nearly 8quid basic. They wanted nearly 18quid signed for :eek:
i nearly messed my pantys :p

So what price have you paid to send things since the change.
Whats a Mobo in its original box cost to post these days or a H/D etc
 
I'm not trying to say "go forth and find a guide" - but isn't there a guide on Royal Mail's site?

/goes off to hunt
 
I posted a 1.5kg box containing ADSL router, cables and Plug.

Standard delivery was about £5.50

About the same price as before but not 1st class :(

Not that that seems to make any difference these days for some poeple :)
 
Yes there is a guide but it is merely that, a guide. What i actually want is people that have sent items under the new charges to list what they have actually payed, like i did.
As i said we do seem to send the same sort of stuff time and time again.

TY.
Efour2. That's what i meant.
 
Sent a 7900GTX yesterday special delivery which was £7 and a few pence. Same as before i think.

Also sent a chipset fan which is in a long envelope but i folded it back on itself so its not that big.

But befiore that i sent a Lian-Li PC7 Plus case and it cost me £9.97, now before the price rise i sent a similar size and weight item and it was only £6.50
 
I sent my PSP in original box plus 2 movies and i think three games, plus a hand grip and two small game carry cases, cost me £18.00 signed for ???

Shocking !
 
We own a mail order business, and a conservative estimate is that our yearly mail bill (which is already considerable) will at least double. Not to mention the extra hassle and expense of sorting letters/packets/blah blah ourselves.

It's a pain, and we're actively looking for other ways of delivering our mail.
 
I've sent off a motherboard, fully boxed. Cost £7 signed for delivered.

Also, i sent out a CPU in a small modem box, and that cost something like £3 for first class.
 
I'm doing all right out of the new postal charges so far. The woman behind the counter was so confused with it all and the fact that the two identical items that I was sending came up at different prices (scales didn't reset to zero and it tipped it over the threshold) didn't help matters. I managed to send two USB flash drives at a cost of £1 each and buy a second class stamp for the sum of £1.68 :confused: :cool:

Previously I went in to buy 135 of the new large second class stamps. I took in one of what I was sending and the woman behind the counter said "So how much should that be to send" err.... shouldn't you be telling me :p
 
Posted a stick of RAM & the robbers wanted £1 :eek:
Light enough to only warrant a 1st class stamp on the old regs, & only in a standard envelope with bit of bubble wrap- Suddenly becomes too fat to fit in either of the letter categorys.

Not amused.

-Leezer-
 
from what ive seen it all depends on which post office and which memeber of staff serves you as they seem to be more confused about it than us
 
Seems a rather pointless exercise from the Royal Mail that will end up costing them more in the short to medium term at least due to all the confusion. Silly thing is that an A4 letter now costs more than an A5 letter, but if you fold the A4 letter in half, it's the same as the A5 letter.
 
I'm wondering, yesterday I posted something and they classed it as a large letter, today I posted an identical item and it was charged as a package (due to thickness) now they both had printed labels put on instead of stamps. So if they notice that it is wrong will it still make it to its destination without incurring any extra charges as it was their mistake?
 
Some time ago I imported some quantity of kitchen product which i sell to plumbers and end users. The item weights 0.9 kg. Before to send one item via first class was £4.80 and two items (almost 2kg) £5.40.
Now to send single item I pay £2.70 (large packet, as they call it) and to send 2 items together it would cost me £7.29 (!!!) because it's calculated as 4.74 for first 1.25kg and £0.85 for every next 250 gramms. Which basically means instead of sending one packet with 2 or more items it is cheaper for me to send them as separate packages but Royal Mail, due to their own stupidity have multiple items to handle, label and track instead of one, single item... New prices work out cheaper for me though.
 
I think people are mixing up special delivery (signed for) and recorded first class, which is also signed for. Special delivery is rarely good value when you get into the £18 bracket, particularly as most couriers will do pretty much any parcel for around £10.
 
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