Miserable royal Mail

Pollycat

sillygoose wrote: »

The lesson here is avoid buying/sending cards with badges as a letter now is only allowed to be 5mm thick.

Isn't the lesson here to put the correct postage on?

sillygoose

Well I am all for following the 'rules'
Take out a mobile phone contract you can't afford? no sympathy from me, send in the bailiffs.
Get caught without an MOT - off with your head!

But.. I still think setting a letter limit at 5mm is punitive entrapment as it seems to be 'just' tight enough to catch a pretty normal small card with a little plastic 'Happy Ten' badge glued on.

And yes its probably very good business acumen by RM to do this, God knows they need to make money some how but all I can say is I am disappointed, I don't expect charity just common sense.

I will be writing to my Euro MP to see if some regulation can't be introduced forcing the limit to be set at 8mm... not for me, I am old enough and tough enough to come through this, but for the children, the children everywhere.

custardy

sillygoose wrote: »

Well I am all for following the 'rules'
Take out a mobile phone contract you can't afford? no sympathy from me, send in the bailiffs.
Get caught without an MOT - off with your head!

But.. I still think setting a letter limit at 5mm is punitive entrapment as it seems to be 'just' tight enough to catch a pretty normal small card with a little plastic 'Happy Ten' badge glued on.

And yes its probably very good business acumen by RM to do this, God knows they need to make money some how but all I can say is I am disappointed, I don't expect charity just common sense.

I will be writing to my Euro MP to see if some regulation can't be introduced forcing the limit to be set at 8mm... not for me, I am old enough and tough enough to come through this, but for the children, the children everywhere.

Why would they change is after 6 years?
Why not 1cm?

RM set the price/size because many items that were light,were awkward to handle and caused issues on mech(machine) sorting.
remember all those charity pens you used to get in envelopes? a lot less now because of the change in postage pricing.

apesxx

I'll agree with you sillygoose, If i was sending a card with a small badge i too would think that it would be a normal letter and would put a normal stamp on it and think nothing of it when i shove it in the post box. I've also never noticed the "large letter" on the back either. must pay more attention in future lol x

sillygoose

custardy wrote: »

Why would they change is after 6 years?
Why not 1cm?

RM set the price/size because many items that were light,were awkward to handle and caused issues on mech(machine) sorting.

Machines??? for the princely sum of 60 new pence I expect my post to be sorted by hand by past Nobel Peace Prize winners wearing velvet gloves and conveying on silk cushions.

custardy

sillygoose wrote: »

Machines??? for the princely sum of 60 new pence I expect my post to be sorted by hand by past Nobel Peace Prize winners wearing velvet gloves and conveying on silk cushions.

yes well its another example of the public being resistant to change.
The thing the posties always seem to get tagged with.

sillygoose

custardy wrote: »

yes well its another example of the public being resistant to change.
The thing the posties always seem to get tagged with.

I have no issues with posties, just the business policy, perhaps if it were 8mm instead of 5mm a lot more things might get sent (As the step up to large letter is quite a lot of money if you stay with 1st class) and the good old RM might make more money through greater bulk.

I have just measured a biro at 9.5mm so they won't make it through.

custardy

sillygoose wrote: »

I have no issues with posties, just the business policy, perhaps if it were 8mm instead of 5mm a lot more things might get sent (As the step up to large letter is quite a lot of money if you stay with 1st class) and the good old RM might make more money through greater bulk.

I have just measured a biro at 9.5mm so they won't make it through.

no,they just use flatter pens.

you seem to miss the big picture.
RM dont deal in a couple of letters.
Thicker items cost more to handle
they may require manual sorting..
they take up more space in trays,so fill up york trolleys faster
so they fill up the trucks faster. if you have to lay on more trucks/runs,its more cost.
on delivery they mean splitting mail into more bundles and can mean more time on delivery.etc etc

scale it up. if you need to put a cost on it.
wait until you get zonal pricing. Price in proportion(PIP) will seem a breeze

chunkychocky

It would be handy though if they had some slots on the side of a postbox so we could just check that we had used the right stamp before popping it in the box. It wouldn't cost much for the Royal Mail to invent some way of us checking at the post box rather than everyone having to go into a post office each time, and would save a lot of these issues.

custardy

chunkychocky wrote: »

It would be handy though if they had some slots on the side of a postbox so we could just check that we had used the right stamp before popping it in the box. It wouldn't cost much for the Royal Mail to invent some way of us checking at the post box rather than everyone having to go into a post office each time, and would save a lot of these issues.

are you writing your post out on the street?
if not then it would probably be easier to check in the house/office