Hello, Reader Peep's. I went to my village Post Office today to cost some delivery/returns prices. I wonder if you have seen the gauge that decides the postal charge? At the bottom is a 3/8" slot for letter size. Next is a 1 1/4" slot, if it won't go in there, the top slot is about 4"? How ridiculous to have such a big jump in size, Just makes everything smaller so costly. Pity they didn't employ the Alan Sugar girl who, i believe, took over the running of A football club. A marketing genius! Kids seat for £1, Family ticket £5,= Stadium full! regards Rodders
Posted two packets recently almost identical contents, first one went through the thin slot and the second one just gave the counter person a little resistance so cost £2 more. Asked them to try again and they wouldn't, probably just needed a quick shake to make the contents settle.
Its about time the post office had to defend itself from domestic delivery competition, its been protected way too long.
I posted a parcel to a member on here the other day, and was originally told it was too large to be a small packet, and was a medium one. It wouldn't go through the top slot.
however, as I was in the local one stop, and not a 'proper' post offive, the girl was HELPFULL [post office staff should refer to a dictionary for the definition of that] and she measured it and said that it was in fact within the dimensions in the new leaflet for a small packet.
made just over a quids difference.
so even if it won't go through the slot, ask them to check against the measurements in the leaflet.
I'm guessing that what actually defines it is it's volume, but I might be wrong.
also, treasure helpfull sub post offices :heart2:
Quote from: class37025 on April 19, 2013, 10:50:03 PMI'm guessing that what actually defines it is it's volume, but I might be wrong.
Don't give 'em ideas... If it's volume, we'll have postmen dunking parcels in buckets of water and running around naked yelling 'EUREKA!!!' :laugh3:
you've quite put me off my snap.
what a horrible thought, shan't be able to sleep all shift night :smiley-laughing:
and then there are the boxes I bought, which suited some of my stuff quite well, with a bit of padding. Previously cost £2.20 to send, sudenly went up to over £5.00 :veryangry:
I now have a pile of boxes which I cannot use for posting.
Quote from: NTrain link=topic=13295.msg13408b9#msg134089 date=1366437881
I now have a pile of boxes which I cannot use for posting.
sell the boxes on ebay, but don't post them individually of course...
Quote from: NTrain on April 20, 2013, 07:04:41 AM
Previously cost £2.20 to send, sudenly went up to over £5.00 :veryangry:
Wow! That's an incredible increase.
The box was just too big to go through the new small packet slot. Fortunately, none of my stuff is actually too thick, so I will not do that again, but I was using some rather nice boxes that I could assemble very quickly. Oh well, back to using boxes that take more time to assemble.
It is important to me to protect the goods i send. :D
yeh same here. local prices are silly. to bring a loco from the uk to here cost 3 pounds to get the same delivery from local shop to my place a total of about 45km is about A$6
bart
It just gets worse!
A "medium parcel" ( over 8cm thick but under 250g ) will cost £5.65 ( 1C ) or £5.20 ( 2C ) for delivery in the UK but will cost £3.50 to send anywhere in Europe and only £4.70 or £4.50 to send anywhere else in the world.
So, it is now more expensive to send a packet from Edinburgh to Glasgow than to Melbourne! Bizarre.
Alex
Quote from: surfaceman on April 20, 2013, 10:51:45 AM
It just gets worse!
A "medium parcel" ( over 8cm thick but under 250g ) will cost £5.65 ( 1C ) or £5.20 ( 2C ) for delivery in the UK but will cost £3.50 to send anywhere in Europe and only £4.70 or £4.50 to send anywhere else in the world.
So, it is now more expensive to send a packet from Edinburgh to Glasgow than to Melbourne! Bizarre.
Alex
Can't you send it European service to the UK (as it's in Europe)? :)
ridiculous the costs of posting now :-X folk will start using courier services more and they collect from your house.
Dont get me started on this, please dont.
Oh go on then, biggest most costly change is the insuranc with proof of postting down from £48 to just £20, everything over that needs to be signed for. Now everyone is meant to be at home all day to sign for parcels.
ARGH THIS IS WINDING ME UP. :veryangry: :veryangry: :veryangry:
>:( I suspect that in a few months time they will hit on the 'water/gas/electric meter' idea and charge a fee for every package/letter/parcel delivered to your address :veryangry: :veryangry:
Or the music publisher approach where you pay every time you read the letter, or mention the letter and have to pay an additional charge to read your letter in public or let a friend see it :veryangry:
Quote from: NTrain on April 20, 2013, 07:04:41 AM
and then there are the boxes I bought, which suited some of my stuff quite well, with a bit of padding. Previously cost £2.20 to send, sudenly went up to over £5.00 :veryangry:
I now have a pile of boxes which I cannot use for posting.
sell them as stock boxes, if they would take a full rake of carriages in each box ;D
Up until last month we used to have our post collected from our workplace by Royal Mail.
Then they put the cost up by £750 per year :o
Needless to say we told them to stuff it where the sun don't shine
Quote from: jonclox on April 20, 2013, 02:58:21 PM
>:( I suspect that in a few months time they will hit on the 'water/gas/electric meter' idea and charge a fee for every package/letter/parcel delivered to your address :veryangry: :veryangry:
as long as I can charge them for all the c**p they shove through my letterbox, it far outnumbers the proper post :bounce:
There is a form to stop the unaddressed crap. Not that there should need to be as fly tipping is already an offence!!
about as effective as the telephone preference scheme I expect.
has anyone else noticed how many text messages you get now [ppi, compensation for 'your accident', payday loans, etc] that are addressed to you by name ?
I have just sold a whole batch of stuff on that web site and got a massive shock when the time came to post it all. Last time I posted after selling on ebay, I was paying around £3-£3.50 for first class recorded delivery, I was quoted £6.55 this time!!!!
Madness, I ended up sended smaller, less valuable stuff normal 2nd class and the locomotives 2nd class signed for. What frustrated me is that there has been no information anywhere to inform us the prices have all gone up! Trouble is, if you start quoting £7 for postage, nobody will bid!!
Best wishes
Stroppy Simon
The mail one only covers royal mail unaddressed crap but does seem to work, unlike the phone one which has a useless regulator that never sues anyone for breaking the rules.. just like the press and financial ones didn't
Yes, it's only 'commercial' 'phone calls that are restricted too - 'marketing surveys' aren't, so every ****** claims to be doing a marketing survey, so they can 'legitimately' phone you, even if they're selling uPVC windows or trying to get you to claim for mis-sold PPI. We've taken to leaving the answering machine on all the time, and only picking up if it's someone we want to speak to. :veryangry: :veryangry: :veryangry: :veryangry: :veryangry: :veryangry:
We haven't got a land line so do not get these calls............
Just get texts on the mobile phones, e-mails, ..............................
I only give my mobile number to friends, never to commercial organisations - so I don't get the texts.
Quote from: 1936ace on April 20, 2013, 10:38:22 AM
yeh same here. local prices are silly. to bring a loco from the uk to here cost 3 pounds to get the same delivery from local shop to my place a total of about 45km is about A$6
bart
Aussie prices now getting silly. Needed to send some bits home to the family about the size of four small coal wagons. Cost me AUD $20. The bits inside were only worth $30.
We have even less choice in South Aus - parcel weights start at 500g then the next is 3kg. However all parcel are tracked FOC with signatures costing a n extra $3