experiences of new postal rates

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I found making your own postage slots helps.
I got the size guide from the post office (as I have never received one at home) and glued it to a cardboard box and cut the appropriate slots in it. All the slot edges and sides were covered in sticky tape to stop fraying and there you have it!
Digital scales also help and luckily my kitchen ones are quite accurate.

MimiJane

mah_jong wrote:

'PARDON?????????? :mad:

mah_jong

MimiJane wrote:

.... and your point is???

MimiJane

mah_jong wrote:

.... and your point is???

I made my point in an earlier post ... more to the point, what is your point??

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Contains_Mild_Peril wrote:

I'm not sure if there's a special procedure for this, but if you have a receipt specifying both weights and prices (which I think they usually do), you should be able to claim a refund from the PO which overcharged you. Failing that, you could try sending a copy of it to the same address as claim forms for missing mail (sorry don't have it handy right now) with a letter explaining what's happened and asking for a refund.

Unfortunately although the weight was put on items I sent recorded, they were to wrong weights and the items I sent via normal post don't have their weights listed. So I don't think I have much of a leg to stand on.
However I won't be using that sub-post office again although the queue is much shorter then the Main one in town. I took a known weight down there to test the scales and their scales seem to be working so I dunno what they were doing to overcharge me, deliberately or otherwise.

On another note, they gave me a large letter 1st class stamp (44p) for a book. I found out later that the book should have cost 90p to post! Luckily it still got there.

gingercordial

Oh dear, I have just listed a load of books on Amazon (dejunking the house today in preparation for moving) and have no idea whether I'll make a profit or a loss after posting! Still, I need them out of the house either way!

I'm normally a buyer rather than a seller so can I just raise one issue, and feel free to ignore me, but if you're forcing stuff through the slots, isn't your buyer likely to get an underpaid postage fee if it gets picked up as the wrong size/postage at the sorting office? If I, as a buyer, had to pay the additional postage and fee to collect my item, then I'd have to complain to the seller and I would be asking them to refund me the amount I'd had to pay (and considering my feedback if they wouldn't do so).

lovetoshop_2

My items have gobe from first class post to £1.10 I am not happy, they have to be wrapped in bubble wrap and i cannot flatten them. Royal mail are making a fortune.

tankgirl1

MimiJane wrote:

I made my point in an earlier post ... more to the point, what is your point??

from reading back this thread, i think mah_jong works in a post office, and is one of the good uns who is clued up on PIP

MimiJane

tankgirl1 wrote:

from reading back this thread, i think mah_jong works in a post office, and is one of the good uns who is clued up on PIP

Whoops No offence Mah_jong ... this was purely a generalisation ... good to know someone knows what they're doing

essexhoney

mah_jong wrote:

Just wondering why you didn't sent by standard parcels between 2 and 4 kg its #7.70, ( I cant get a pound sign I get a hash if I press the button with the pound sign!!!). Cant think what first class mail is off the top of my head.... would be arouund 8.15.

ok,...... just checked on web, it would have been 8.14 first class, (woohoo getting good at guessing!)

i did question them as to why i couldnt send it like that as that is how they usually go and i buy extra insurance for the amount they sold for on top of that and i was told they couldnt do it as it didnt work that way anymore