Royal Fail Prices...

[Toms306]

Evening,

Well I don't know if everyones aware of this but recently the royal mail postage prices for packets has changed!

Now there is a choice between 'small' packet and 'medium'. Small packets must be less than 8cm deep. Less than a kilo and a small packet is £3, for 1st class, which is what it was before anyway. However over 8cm deep now costs £5.20second or £5.65 first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a f*cking rip off! Its now cheaper to courier stuff larger than a small packet.

http://www.royalmail.com/price-finder

Anyway, maybe you all know and I've missed it but if not, you've been warned lol.

Tom

[cwspellowe]

Right, but a courier can turn up at your house any time between 8am and 6pm usually, and in my case i've had couriers who couldn't get a parking space and just never bothered turning up.

Also couriers aren't THAT cheap any more. I remember I used to pay about £5/6 for a small parcel (up to 30cmx30x30 ish) but now the cheapest seems to be over £8

[lolsteve]

Royal mail are silly with their prices now, avoid them when posting anything now apart from basic letters. Don't understand how myhermes can do it for so much less

[cwspellowe]

Because Hermes are wank and it takes up to a week to deliver?

Best service I've used is Collect+, dirt cheap, cost me £4 to send a set of Bosch injectors to NI after I realised i'd been done on postage through eBay. I said i'd post 24h courier on the listing, saw the costs for delivering to NI, purchased Collect+ instead

[Toms306]

Well maybe the couriers are shite up North then...

Hermes are still cheapest, £4 for a small parcel for 3-5 days, I know not everyone likes Hermes though, and I have also had problems with them in the past. However I've had more problems with royal mail tbh, and they also turn up at any time lol, doesnt seem to be any strict times for them to come round here.

Yodel do pretty much any parcel for £8.xx 48hr.....however I have loads moaning when i was couriering Golf parts that they were taking longer than the Hermes ones to arrive lol..hermes arrived in 3 days, Yodel '48hr' were taking longer than that despite costing twice as much. But even still, I posted wings, ARBs, PAS rack and loads of big heavy things for £7.50 with them at the time (it went up begining of this year) and IMO thats much better value than royal mail/parcel force....

Postage everywhere is stupidly high now....but why royal mail have suddenly added an extra pricing thing to thier system and an extra £2.50 on something that already cost £3 is beyond me!

[lolsteve]

Been using hermes loads and not had any problems with them, royal mail had non stop amounts of problems with. Recent example, a phone sent to me via next day delivery and screen protectors sent 2nd class. both dispatched same day, both arrived right the end of the 3rd day

[Toms306]

Just to update...

One item that I should've been posting with royal mail that is shoebox sized and now too large and would cost £5.20 2nd class...I've just posted with Hermes for £3.30....

[declantg]

Cost me £12 to send the decat

[Toms306]

Who with? TNT or citylink or something?

[Willo]

Royal fail lost a parcel that was being sent to me who knows where that's ended up

[declantg]

I honestly can't remember

[Dum-Dum]

its all shit now, cost of fuel and other running costs are really starting to hit.

[Toms306]

its all shit now, cost of fuel and other running costs are really starting to hit.

Yeah I know the cost of fuel has a huge impact, as it does with everything else. But having to use a note to post a small parcel seems a lot!

[306Puggy]

This is probably why my manifold spacers and studs didn't get to me then!

[Dum-Dum]

Well if you don't like it work out the cost of taking it there yourself and suddenly it seems cheap.

Its why for larger items I often end up going and picking them up myself due to the cost of postage/courier.

[sweeney1987]

cost of fuel shouldnt impact too badly if correct procedures and logistics are in place.
If theyre busy enough there should never be an empty van running from one place to another

[Toms306]

Well if you don't like it work out the cost of taking it there yourself and suddenly it seems cheap.

Its why for larger items I often end up going and picking them up myself due to the cost of postage/courier.

cost of fuel shouldnt impact too badly if correct procedures and logistics are in place.
If theyre busy enough there should never be an empty van running from one place to another

This is just what I was gonna say (although with less big words....).

If I drive ONE package for a fiver I could take it 50 miles. If I have two thats only £2.50 each. Take 10 and its then only 50 pence each. And thats exactly how royal mail should work, granted thier lorries probably don't do 60mpg but with such a huge quantity of mail it'll barely cost anything each. I know you've then gotta pay wages and maintenance but if they could do it for £3 before, to almost double is taking the piss tbh...if they'd stuck 50p on I probably wouldn't have taken any notice but £2.50...

[C.A.R.]

But the service has vastly improved!....



Old boss who runs the model shop is using royal fail less and less, when I worked there years ago we would send out 25ish aerosol spray paints every week, just lately (~12 months) more and more cans have been getting perished in the hands of the royal fail...customer receives exploded aerosol can and a Jiffy bag soaked in paint haha!

[HDIkyle]

Is that because you are not ment to post aerosol Lol

[C.A.R.]

Is that because you are not ment to post aerosol Lol

Only if it is going in an aeroplane...shouldn't matter otherwise.

[ashkid]

i had this it changed on the 2nd i sold a pair off babys trainers come to about 7 quid went to post then and i put them in a bag and a box and cause where the bag was folded up at the back it would fit throu as small parcel so i said i aint paying the 5quid odd for sumin ive sold for 7quid and only charged 3quid postage so had to cut it down so it went throu its hardly worth selling anything under a tenner thats small

[HDIkyle]

Is that because you are not ment to post aerosol Lol

Only if it is going in an aeroplane...shouldn't matter otherwise.

I ment to put only by land and sea. but royal mail do fly mail overnight (or they did on top gear lol)

[C2K]

They have ditched standard parcels altogether. It changed at the start of the month. Just a bigger rip off now.

I have just received tom's parcel no problem from hermes, I've also posted twenty odd packages with them in the last month. All delivered quickly with no problems and they have a service where you can drop it off at a participating corner shop which is win!

[Rich306]

£16.20 to send a First class recorded delivery today!! Only on a box weighing 5 kilos!! what a bloody joke!!