For Sale: Postage price increase

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  • Turns out the Post Office put their prices up yesterday people.

    Gone up quite a bit and insurance has fell from £44 to £20 per parcel unless signed for delivery

    Don't forget to factor this into your sale prices

  • Thanks for headsup! :)

  • Yes!...Quite a change especially the insurance bit.....I sent a small package on 18 March [2nd class] and it arrived yesterday [2 April]...ok that is rare but!!!

  • Yeah the fuckers!!

    I sent a small A5 jiffy bag with some Ti skewers, total weight 75g.

    1st recorded £4.20!!!

    Standard 1st class was £3+

  • Yeah I found this out yesterday when posting a saddle.
    Usually £2.60 2nd class but its gone up to £5.30 or something!!!!

  • 2nd class recorded from £3.15 to £3.70 :(

  • bunch of thieving cunts

  • Yep, this caught me out this morning. The new "small parcel" seemed to have a good range, but price soon jumped up when some bars turned out to be 2cm longer than the template they now use (despite being lighter than anything else I sent and still fitting through the aperture) so price doubled as a "medium parcel". Cnuts.

  • F_ck 'em, plenty of alternatives!

  • theiving postie scum dont even deliver half of them thats why insurance gone up !

  • Yep, this caught me out this morning. The new "medium parcel" seemed to have a good range, but soon jumped up when some bars turned out to be 2cm longer than the template they now us (despite being lighter than anything else I sent and still fitting through the aperture) so price doubled. Cnuts.

    were these mine?

  • Yep! Must admit I nearly fell of my chair after the surprise increases... Basic second class item has increased from £2.20 to £2.60 although it goes up to a considerable weight! Still rip off!

  • were these mine?

    Hah, yep. Had to be, didn't it? Don't worry, I just stamped on the bars until they fitted through the standard letter slot.

  • I was going to offer to help with the costs but sounds like you got it covered! Bring on the ergo-moustache bars...

  • plenty of alternatives!

    please share - suggestions on sending a frame appreciated

  • I am not happy with the increases either but could someone explain the best way to post items now. Sizes and costs etc

    Thanks,

    Richard

  • theiving postie scum dont even deliver half of them thats why insurance gone up !

    Really? I've never had anything lost in the post.

  • as an alternative....

    www.myhermes.co.uk -good for small stuff.

    www.ipostparcels.co.uk - for bigger stuff - frames, wheels etc

  • Really? I've never had anything lost in the post.

    the post office are so clever they are playing with our minds ........

  • please share - suggestions on sending a frame appreciated

    www.interparcel.com or www.parcelmonkey.co.uk

    have used both-interparcel standard service is actually UPS, great service and cheep.

  • www.interparcel.com or www.parcelmonkey.co.uk

    have used both-interparcel standard service is actually UPS, great service and cheep.

    Is there a service like this that allows shop drop off? I started off posting frames/wheels by courier but when I realised that I could take stuff to the post office for not much more I moved to that. If the price has gone up then I'll go back to couriers but I could really do without hanging about waiting for them.

  • My local shop has started using this: http://www.collectplus.co.uk/

    Try the postcode finder to see if there is a shop near you. If the post becomes much more expensive, it will be cheaper to just take it to the destination yourself.

  • Ah collectplus may work...the local Mace (what a name....) supermarket does it.

    Tx!

    (rest is out due to me being in Norn Ire...the place the UK forgot)

  • myhermes and collect+ become a problem if your sending big stuff though as lots of them use their own cars and if they arrive and its a huge bike box they go, 'hows that fit in my boot eh?' and drive off

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