Royal Mail are gonna do it.................

soolin

juno wrote:

I requested one, and it never came! So I requested another, and that never came either! So you've obviously been getting my share.

oooh...well if I get another spare I'll post on here and let you know. :money:

SOo

soolin

dougk wrote:

lol,
No that won't work the PO will burst them so the adrdessee gets charged extra as the parcel was sent with incorrect postage stamps on it............

So that means my idea of jumping up and down on my parcels to flatten them before I hand them over won't help either? :rotfl:

littleange

soolin wrote:

Did anyone else that requested one of those free guage thingies find that they keep arriving? I put in a request for one last year as soon as someone posted the link, which duly arrived, as did another the following month, and another a few weeks after that...

I got sent a few too.

Headinaviceboy

There is going to be a big TV / Radio campaign soon. Also, every houshold will be sent a paper version of the template. On the back of greetings cards it will show what pricing bracket they fall into.

MrB_2

soolin wrote:

So that means my idea of jumping up and down on my parcels to flatten them before I hand them over won't help either? :rotfl:

That'll save the Postie doing it.

MrB_2

The very next day after Royal Mail decide a date for screwing you for every penny on the packets you send, they announce that as of Friday12 May, your Postie will receive an extra 2.9% in his/her paypacket, back dated to the beginning of April.
The announcment I'm waiting for is the one that says that their 'competition' will be setting up a delivery network with their own postal rates, then we may get the service we pay for.

Contains_Mild_Peril

Well, currently a 1st class letter weighing up to 60g costs 30p to post whatever its size, but the cost to us if that letter doesn’t fit into a standard envelope (folded) is more than that. So we need to change this to a system that is fair to you and to us as a business.

Put simply, what it means is that small, light items will cost you less to send than large, bulky items.

I really don't see why A4 envelopes with the same content should cost them more to handle than A5. The overall volume and weight are surely much the same?
The queues at the PO up the town are horrendous as it is, and this will become much worse if they're busy trying to measure packets with squashy contents (e.g. clothing).
Though the following example may not be of particular relevance to eBay, it's one which afects and troubles me: the new system means that the cost of sending a photographic film (e.g. to a processing lab) will incease from 30p to £1. That's a 233% increase! :eek:

ableandy

The reason an A4 Envelope costs more to post than a DL one is due to the sorting. A DL Envelope is sorted by computer whereas an A4 envelope has to be sorted by hand.

All this may change in the future if the postoffice gets a really big grant from the Government (not sure how many Millions) that will allow them to install new updated sorting machines throughout the country.

Chalky87

Terrible idea, agree with comment above about longer ques at the Post Office, if I can help it then I won't be choosing to use Royal Mail. Will make sure I clear out all my old stuff to sell on eBay before the 21st!!!

golddustmedia

If it's based on weight not size then surely things will still sell on ebay, just different things...

For example obvisously nobody would buy some large light and fluffy like a cushion, but a lead statue should in theory not be too expensive....
...Unless the new rates are a weird combination of weight and size, how great that'll be! It'll be so unclear how much to pay you'll have to go to the post office rather than stick stamps on at home. But oh yeah! They closed my post office and opened one in the newsagent, when the parcel hatches are smaller on the counter side than the customer side and there's always a huge queue! Hmmm, great!