New postal charges explained.

[Pach]

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[littleboyblue]

:laugh: :laugh:

Most straightforward way of explaining it i have seen or heard :thumb

[BARNETFAN1]

Bastards.

[FY1]

And they say they won't make anymore profit:rolleyes

[BARNETFAN1]

No doubt they will find a way to shit the extra revenue down the drain so they **** themselves over at the same time as ****ing over the public

[ecfc girl]

Obviously none of you have read the bit which says 'small compact items will work out cheaper'.

PS. you should never send money through the post unless it's sent by Special Delivery.

[FY1]

Obviously none of you have read the bit which says 'small compact items will work out cheaper'.

PS. you should never send money through the post unless it's sent by Special Delivery.

I totally understand it Gail.

Granted small items are going to be cheaper(slightly) Bigger parcels are going to bend people over big time. I have to cover the post room where I work when the lad is off. I have had to learn about this new pricing stuff. It's bollocks and will make posting stuff more expensive for the average person.

[StretfordEnd]

It's bollocks and will make posting stuff more expensive for the average person.

Now there's a surprise . . . :rolleyes

[FY1]

No doubt they will find a way to shit the extra revenue down the drain so they **** themselves over at the same time as ****ing over the public

Well they have managed it in the past and no doubt they will do it again.

Now I admit I know nothing about other postal companies but I know TNT have started a postal service for everyday use. I get letters with TNT. I wonder if they are any cheaper?

[TOM OAFC]

Obviously none of you have read the bit which says 'small compact items will work out cheaper'.

PS. you should never send money through the post unless it's sent by Special Delivery.

When i worked at Royal Mail in Oldham you would see a little stand with all the loose money that had fell out of Birthday cards etc.

[wrecker]

Yeah- Like postal workers had a special place to put it.

[Pach]

Yeah- Like postal workers had a special place to put it.

special place = pockets? :)

[great white]

I get letters with TNT. :eeek :eeek someone seriously don't like you then me lad, beats anthrax though I guess :laugh:

[FY1]

:eeek :eeek someone seriously don't like you then me lad, beats anthrax though I guess :laugh:

I guess I asked for that:laugh: :slap:

[ecfc girl]

I totally understand it Gail.

Granted small items are going to be cheaper(slightly) Bigger parcels are going to bend people over big time. I have to cover the post room where I work when the lad is off. I have had to learn about this new pricing stuff. It's bollocks and will make posting stuff more expensive for the average person.

Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about.
Parcel post is not affected by this change at all. If you mean first and second class packets then please say so. Maybe larger heavier items sent by first class post will be dearer but why shouldn't they be? It costs more to transport large items as there is only a set amount of room on a lorry/plane. A 2ft high birthday card for example will take up a lot more space than a normal A5 envelope, so the sender should have to pay more.
As you obviously know there is a weight limit for second class which is currently 750g but will change up to 1kg on the 21st, thus giving more choice to the consumer.

[Pach]

thus giving more choice to the consumer.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Who runs the Royal Mail's "Propaganda Department"? Joseph Goebbels?

[FY1]

Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about.

Ok if you say so.

Parcel post is not affected by this change at all. If you mean first and second class packets then please say so.

Yes I did.

Any envelope bigger than A4 size paper will be classed as a packet, even if it has one sheet of A4 paper in, thus being more expensive than it was before.

A small or medium size envelope thicker than 5mm is classed as a packet, thus being more expenseve even if it's not any heavier than one that's less than 5mm.

[ecfc girl]

They always were classed as packets. Just now they're being priced on size and weight and not just weight. I can;t see the problem to be honest. Like I explained before, if the cost of transporting post goes up then you have to expect the cost to go up too. It should've happened years ago imo.
When people get used to the idea they will send smaller items or use smaller envelopes hence save money and maybe they won't have to cut down so many trees to make the envelopes.

[Pach]

When people get used to the idea they will send smaller items or use smaller envelopes hence save money and maybe they won't have to cut down so many trees to make the envelopes.

Even better would be to completely embrace electronic communications and be done with the postal service altogether, thus saving entire rainforests on envelopes, junk mail, paperwork, payslips for postal employees, printing notes to pay said postal employees, and those idiotic leaflets I keep getting that explain to me why I should be glad I'm being shafted, again.

Not to mention the reams of paper saved on advertising for me to buy my currency with them, only to arrive there and see ANOTHER piece of paper telling me that it must be ordered in advance.

[Chopper]

Yeah...but apart from that...

[StretfordEnd]

thus giving more choice to the consumer.


:no:

Sorry Gail, but having worked in a privatised industry for the last 16 years I know that 'more choice for the consumer' means confusion, frustration and more expenditure for the consumer.

In the same way that 'competition' in these industries means fragmentation, rip-off and exploitation as every Tom, Dick and Harry grabs a piece of the action and milks it for all it's worth . . . :(

[ecfc girl]

it must be ordered in advance.

Foreign currency is on demand in our office, unless you want something exotic ;)

[Pach]

That must be it, me demanding crazy currencies like Euros and Dollars. Sorry Gail, I think I'll stick to the M&S or Thompson Bureau de Change. :(