Went to post somethign today and Royal Mail have imposed new rules from the 2nd April. You have to make sure item is boxed and in a jiffy bag, items with a value of over £20 have to go recorded regardless now, shipping prices have also increased. I used the website to work out pricing for shipping something and it came up wrong. So watch what your doing with it. Also they have enforced new shipping size restrictions. Check with your local post office for sizing restrictions.
Royal Mail (fail) new shipping rules for international post
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Yeah this was posted recently here:
https://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=42974
I sold a lot of stuff the week before Easter on eBay and some people diudn't pay until the Easter weekend, when I posted on the Tuesday I got stung with increased postage prices
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They can't force you to send recorded though, it's up to you what service you choose, you can have First Class, 2nd Class, Airmail, Surface mail, etc
You can get a proof of posting for anything under the value of £46 and can still claim compensation up to that amount for loss
Well I use the term claim loosely as they've not paid me on my lost 'signed for' package from last year yet, they are amendment it was delivered even though there is no POD on their tracking page
It's really not worth using Royal mail for parcels unless they are small packets now, you're better off with Collect+ in UK or another Courier via parcel2go or ParcelMonkey.
Same applies to overseas now too, over 1kg, just use the courier services, it's pretty much the same price and fully tracked...
https://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=42974
I sold a lot of stuff the week before Easter on eBay and some people diudn't pay until the Easter weekend, when I posted on the Tuesday I got stung with increased postage prices
icardThey can't force you to send recorded though, it's up to you what service you choose, you can have First Class, 2nd Class, Airmail, Surface mail, etc
You can get a proof of posting for anything under the value of £46 and can still claim compensation up to that amount for loss
Well I use the term claim loosely as they've not paid me on my lost 'signed for' package from last year yet, they are amendment it was delivered even though there is no POD on their tracking page
It's really not worth using Royal mail for parcels unless they are small packets now, you're better off with Collect+ in UK or another Courier via parcel2go or ParcelMonkey.
Same applies to overseas now too, over 1kg, just use the courier services, it's pretty much the same price and fully tracked...
I use Royal Fail as little as possible the company is a joke. It's decades overdue that their monopoly should be removed so real companies who know what they are doing can move in and fix the mail system in this country. Royal Fail have been crippled by unions, if the market was opened up they would be bankrupt within 6 months.
@Acid. They have been! The postal system was opened up to competition years ago! This is the actual reason Royal Mail have been in the recent trouble.
The competition are not interested in consumer mail because stamped mail runs at a loss. The competition were only ever interested in parcels and bulk business mail because that is where the real profits are. The problem here is that the competition, such as TNT and Business Post, undercut RM to obtain the bulk business, taking away the majority of their profitable business and leaving them with mail streams that were running at a lose.
The other big issue is that RM are regulated and the competition isn't. Until last year the regulator enforced prices that RM were told they could charge for different stamp and other business rates. This meant they could not charge realistic prices that reflected the real cost of handling and delivery. This was changed last year and finally they were allowed to set their own prices, hence the sudden rise in stamp prices. This April letter stamp prices have remained the same, but packet and standard parcel rates have been replaced with a new set of parcel rates split into 3 parcel size prices ranges (based on both weight and dimension).
Why don't any of the competition want to take over RM and it's door to door service? If one of them did the first thing they would do is scrap RMs promise of delivery to every address in the UK. We would lose a unique service in the world where a letter posted for 50p is delivered directly to any address in the UK within 3 days. No other postal service in the world delivers to every address. Competition would force more remote customers to collect their mail rather than deliver it.
Be very careful when posting a large letter or parcel now though. The new prices and different mail sizes mean it is very easy to think you are posting a large letter, or a small parcel, but get the dimensions wrong and it might really be a medium parcel. The price differences between the different sizes has widened meaning surcharges can be much larger. I don't know stamp rates, but as an example take second class Meter rates. You might send a large letter choosing 58p, but if over sized it might really be a small parcel choosing 225p or a medium parcel choosing 440p. So the surcharge would be the price difference plus £1. So those receiving one could be hit with at least a £3 charge.
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The competition are not interested in consumer mail because stamped mail runs at a loss. The competition were only ever interested in parcels and bulk business mail because that is where the real profits are. The problem here is that the competition, such as TNT and Business Post, undercut RM to obtain the bulk business, taking away the majority of their profitable business and leaving them with mail streams that were running at a lose.
The other big issue is that RM are regulated and the competition isn't. Until last year the regulator enforced prices that RM were told they could charge for different stamp and other business rates. This meant they could not charge realistic prices that reflected the real cost of handling and delivery. This was changed last year and finally they were allowed to set their own prices, hence the sudden rise in stamp prices. This April letter stamp prices have remained the same, but packet and standard parcel rates have been replaced with a new set of parcel rates split into 3 parcel size prices ranges (based on both weight and dimension).
Why don't any of the competition want to take over RM and it's door to door service? If one of them did the first thing they would do is scrap RMs promise of delivery to every address in the UK. We would lose a unique service in the world where a letter posted for 50p is delivered directly to any address in the UK within 3 days. No other postal service in the world delivers to every address. Competition would force more remote customers to collect their mail rather than deliver it.
Be very careful when posting a large letter or parcel now though. The new prices and different mail sizes mean it is very easy to think you are posting a large letter, or a small parcel, but get the dimensions wrong and it might really be a medium parcel. The price differences between the different sizes has widened meaning surcharges can be much larger. I don't know stamp rates, but as an example take second class Meter rates. You might send a large letter choosing 58p, but if over sized it might really be a small parcel choosing 225p or a medium parcel choosing 440p. So the surcharge would be the price difference plus £1. So those receiving one could be hit with at least a £3 charge.
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