Royal Mail new prices released

yoyoegg

they work on a self employed basis which is good for myhermes

I was surprised to see a private car pull-up outside my house today and chap got out with my Amazon Prime delivery.

RFW

ballisticbrian wrote: »

mcfly, they work on a self employed basis which is good for myhermes - very quick to take on people on low wages, easy to bump them off as well, I'm no expert but I bet it's a really good formula for rapid growth.

It can be if they handle 'staff' correctly, it can be a recipe for disaster too. I know that most of Yodel's problems result from this. Drivers getting a flat fee to deliver a parcel and thinking that some addresses aren't worth bothering with so they make up stories about no one being in/left with neighbour or whatever and dump parcels wherever they feel like.

Buyers and sellers want cheaper and cheaper delivery that will only lead to more and more problems.

As the supermarkets struggle to make a delivery network worthwhile it may not be long before we see Tesco Parcels or something similar.

ballisticbrian

Every Little Helps!

soolin

eBay have announced they will be looking at postage caps due to new RM costs.

They are also looking at discounted courier services:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/uk/201303040959032.html

lindseykim13

soolin wrote: »

If you are a powerseller then there;s this one:

http://community.ebay.co.uk/topic/Powerseller-Board/Selfish-Rm-Price/18000489803


otherwise there are anumber of threads on the general seller boards, you sometimes have to read them to see where the discussion is going as they start of for private sellers and then go into business accounts (or vice versa).

A general read though is probably best as it might be an idea to actually ask for help , especially on the PS board.

ooh there are some nice sellers there, who really don't like smaller sellers aren't there?!
Luckily i have worked my head around these changes and although i will be loosing a small amount of profit i still make enough to keep it going.

ballisticbrian

Good on you. I think we may see now a proliferation of couriers and a really healthy market develop.

custardy

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Good on you. I think we may see now a proliferation of couriers and a really healthy market develop.

what was stopping it before?

Hodge4ever

Nothing to add apart from thanks to the OP, I'm a private seller that only lists sporadically. I didn't realise that prices were going up & could have been clobbered on my first visit to the PO after April for any medium (formerly small) packages I had!

custardy

Hodge4ever wrote: »

Nothing to add apart from thanks to the OP, I'm a private seller that only lists sporadically. I didn't realise that prices were going up & could have been clobbered on my first visit to the PO after April for any medium (formerly small) packages I had!

They go up every year(or at least some do or change)
its usually plastered all over the internet & some journos will jump over it

Contains_Mild_Peril

They do go up every year, but usually not so steeply, and usually without introducing new dimension bands which are likely to catch occasional users out and kill numerous small businesses. I'm looking through my stock for items over 8cm thick but not particularly heavy, many of which are low value items which will be unsaleable after the price increases. I don't have a Myhermes posting point in my area.
I don't even see how Royal Mail will profit from this: they are pricing themselves out of the parcel delivery market in areas well served by other couriers, so they'll end up with a far higher proportion of their parcels going to and from remote locations.
The only eBay sellers likely to profit significantly from these changes are those selling boxes which fit within the new dimension limits.