DM article on RM 'stealth tax'

alx2013

Daily Mail article about the recent RM hikes - catching up a bit late but I'm glad this is getting a bit of newspaper space as I suspect most of my buyers are unaware of it still. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311908/Royal-Mails-stealth-tax-posting-parcels-Small-businesses-despair-packaging-bills-double.html

soolin

I was surprised at how little coverage there had been of some quite massive changes.

Ralph-y

Good article , reminds me why I don't but news papers any more ........

'stealth tax' ?????? I presume they meant price rise ???

Ralph

RFW

Ralph-y wrote: »

Good article , reminds me why I don't but news papers any more ........

'stealth tax' ?????? I presume they meant price rise ???

Ralph

How unusual scaremongering in the Daily Mail;) I'm not sure I want my postal service getting paid £2.70 to handle a large box of cup cakes from one side of the country to the other anyway. They could have 200 large letters in the same space.

One of the bigger problems is that consumers just go in the post office to send a parcel without knowing of other options, so end up paying way over the odds.

It's a shame they don't actually bother to do a proper report, rather than just the headline information. With information for customers as to where else they can go to send parcels.

A recent report in there about Amazon price rises had quite a few inaccuracies, not least comparing Amazon fees with those of Ebay.com, which are quite different to UK Ebay.

PasturesNew

I sent my mum a nice "slightly bigger than usual, but not huge" card for mother's day - thought it'd look special/cheery. When I visited her in her care home, it had a fat sticker on the front charging £1.09 for insufficient postage. It was only a bl00dy card!!

soolin

PasturesNew wrote: »

I sent my mum a nice "slightly bigger than usual, but not huge" card for mother's day - thought it'd look special/cheery. When I visited her in her care home, it had a fat sticker on the front charging £1.09 for insufficient postage. It was only a bl00dy card!!

I think you are about 8 years out of date

That's to do with pricing in proportion, standard sized mail would be 60p first class, large letter 69p, so the difference was 9p plus £1 handling charge.

Nothing to do with the current changes.

campdave

Love the DM trademark "holding something and looking sad" photograph.

custardy

PasturesNew wrote: »

I sent my mum a nice "slightly bigger than usual, but not huge" card for mother's day - thought it'd look special/cheery. When I visited her in her care home, it had a fat sticker on the front charging £1.09 for insufficient postage. It was only a bl00dy card!!

translated_for_PasturesNew wrote:

I paid insufficient postage for a card I chose. It most likely advised me it would be classed as a large letter and given this pricing system is now been in place for over 7 years,it really is my own fault

I blame the parents