Royal Mail new prices released

COOLTRIKERCHICK

phil_jd wrote: »

Me too! :beer:

Though I'm a little confused about the forecasting section of the general terms (4.4).

I am confused:o as it only mention packetpost, does this cover the royal mail 24/48 service

its been one of those days, think i nee to have a chill out in the bath, and then read the email, and ALL the terms an conditions:eek::rotfl:

alx2013

Yes it's the new service 24/48.
I must say their O.B.A. website is as poor as the information they give!
At least my parcels seem to be getting there, I am paying average £2.21 to send parcels RM48 service so about the same as before!

custardy

to all those struggling with RM & information
now you see the sort of info posties deal with

Strapped

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Just had my terms and conditions email

will look through it properly tonight

When did you do your ap form?

Strapped

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

By the sounds of it, they are so swomped under with new applications etc, their sales team just cant do their job properly.

Really am sitting on the fence now with opening a RM account, OR do I just use dispatch bay?????

If your parcels are mainly less than 2kg and you can make the volumes, then RM is cheaper. If you have mostly >2kg, then Despatch Bay remains cheaper. But there's not a huge amount in it, so I'd go on convenience too. (I find despatch bay convenient because they pick up from my porch and sign the paperwork regardless of whether I'm here or not).

At the moment I'm running with Despatch Bay until I get RM up and running, then I think I will switch to RM. Probably.

ballisticbrian

alx2013 wrote: »

Yes it's the new service 24/48.
I must say their O.B.A. website is as poor as the information they give!
At least my parcels seem to be getting there, I am paying average £2.21 to send parcels RM48 service so about the same as before!

Is this for the new small parcel size?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Is this for the new small parcel size?

I thought it covered all size parecels under 1kg?

ainsyg

I now use despatchbay, much cheaper

If you sign up and enter promotional code 20527 you will get £10 of free shipping.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Strapped wrote: »

When did you do your ap form?

I Phoned, and they passed my details onto the sales team, the call back timescale now/was approx 3 weeks:eek::eek:

I should imagine this week people who didn't realise/know about the price hike, could be phoning up too, so think they might be busy for a few more weeks

alx2013

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Is this for the new small parcel size?

You don't do it by size but by average weight. Which is really good for me as my items are light but some are bulky.
So if you send 10 parcels you weigh them all up and divide the total by 10.
We need our own O.B.A. thread!
I think I was lucky in getting set up so quickly. I phoned them 10th March I think and it took 2 weeks to sort out.