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

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!!!' 

you've quite put me off my snap.

what a horrible thought, shan't be able to sleep all shift night 

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 

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 

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. 

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 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.

  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