Royal Mail new prices released

custardy

soolin wrote: »

I am going to have to find myself a PO with a cube gauge as I want to make absolutely definitely sure my new boxes won't cause any argument.

Lot of the POs received an SD cardboard thing today
possibly the cube gauge?

soolin

ballisticbrian wrote: »

My little PO are expeting the cube, know about the exceptions. Today I got the business pack through and there is mention of the exceptions in the pack (on paper not only online). Any more news on the airmail letters 5mm and when that's coming in would be useful.

The new charts I've seen do not show the 5mm requirement and my mail centre say that the earliest they would be changed is on the next price change next April. They are happy to accept all my airmail under 100g as a letter as long as I have an item of correspondence in there. However, and it is a big however, they are no longer taking airmail over the counter unless already stamped or franked- and as my two local POs both require all airmail items to go as a packet it leaves other sellers with no alternative.

custardy wrote: »

Lot of the POs received an SD cardboard thing today
possibly the cube gauge?

I'll ask mine when I go in today. They have the standard card gauges already though and were handing them out yesterday to some very confused people who knew nothing about the changes.

campdave

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Any more news on the airmail letters 5mm and when that's coming in would be useful.

Nothing other than "some point in the future" - given Royal Mail have just printed hundreds of thousands of copies of the new price guide with no mention of the 5mm restriction, the assumption is that it's not imminent as any change will invalidate all those guides.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

had my phone call this morning:j:j

looks as though they are not sending out any terms etc until the 2 - 3 April.

so at least I know in about 2 - 3 weeks My account will be up and running.( fingers crossed)

by all accounts they are getting loads of inquries, and they are refusing loads, as they are not going to be sending out the min of 1000 parcels/packets...

ballisticbrian

About the 5mm, this is just a theory but I think the International Postal Union Convention says a letter can be anything up to 5 kilos, and unless Roiyal Mail can opt out of that, that is why they have to accept small packets with letters.

flipper_2010

Does anyone know of a couriers where you don't need a printer? As I'm assuming no one is going to be buying things with £8 or £5.30 postage. I still want to sell but don't want to buy a printer as I wouldn't be using it enough to justify it.

ballisticbrian

Flipper, I don't know any that don't use a printer, In your case I would be using "export to pdf" and emailing that pdf to a friend with a printer at work or home.

custardy

flipper_2010 wrote: »

Does anyone know of a couriers where you don't need a printer? As I'm assuming no one is going to be buying things with £8 or £5.30 postage. I still want to sell but don't want to buy a printer as I wouldn't be using it enough to justify it.

seriously?
printers are dirt cheap
personally I prefer to do a printed address label over hand written where possible
I hardly use my printer but its 'costs' are minimal given it just sits there till its needed

flipper_2010

Its the cost of the ink more than the actual printer, as i wouldnt use it that much the ink would dry up and end up costing me more.

flipper_2010

I thought about emailing it and printing it elsewhere, but don't want to impose on people