Post Office put prices up by 150% on parcels

[Bludragonfly]

I've been using http://www.myhermes.co.uk recently for larger items

[Shogun]

I was quite happy with the service they provided last week infact I was amazed,I sent a brake compensator for a Transit van to my son who lives in Great Bircham in Norfolk.it cost £10 I sent it on friday afternoon from the post office in Sheffield and it was deliverd to his house the next morning at 10am.

[stressconsul]

I got a nasty shock at the post office price increase this week. I run a distance learning business so I post a lot of large parcels. Sadly I shall no longer be supporting my local post office.

[chrislad]

Royal mail is crap

They couldn't deliver a parcel the other day so after about 1 hr trying to get

through to them to have it re-delivered they said it will be delivered any time saturday up to 6pm, so the wife stopped in and guess what, a big no show.

thanks royal mail for such a crap service

[sand_dollars]

I got a nasty shock at the post office price increase this week. I run a distance learning business so I post a lot of large parcels. Sadly I shall no longer be supporting my local post office.

 

Its not the post office that's at fault its Royal Mail

[Guest busdriver1]

Royal mail are very quickly pricing themselves out of business.

Given the service I have had from them in the past I will not miss them.

[sand_dollars]

I also use despatch bay for UK parcels and because I take the larger parcels to the depot I get a better deal.

 

They still have a cost of £2.60 for 1.5kg parcel as long as the volume is under 5 litres. So this works out well if you send 4 or more parcelsas yo have to add a bag label at £3.43.

 

The Retford business have a £10 trial offer if you enter 1GD7G at http://www.despatchbay.com which will send at least two small parcels to anywhere in the UK.

 

I just ordered something from ebay and it came this morning says on the lable dispatch bay but was delivered by royal mail

[Chez2]

I don't send parcels often for my main business but I do send them and we do put our own things we want to get rid of on ebay. I use parcel2go comparison site. You can compare and select the courier/service you want to use once you have eneterd the size and weight of the item. For business I tend to use UPS same day collect and next day delivery as they have never let me down and speed and reliability is important. For ebay items I tend to use the cheapest.

 

http://www.parcel2go.com/?gclid=CNamz_nRurYCFSzKtAodWF0AqA

 

 

I know of people running businesses selling via mail order and they say PArcel Pete is good. Ive never used it myself.

 

http://www.parcelpete.com/?gclid=CKymtJPSurYCFWLHtAodrSYAmQ

[SportsTrophy]

I just ordered something from ebay and it came this morning says on the lable dispatch bay but was delivered by royal mail

 

Yes it uses Royal mail services but is a bulk supplier so they get massive discounts.

[chocki]

Ebay says: "Letter Stamp Prices are unchanged from their 2012 prices. Therefore if the item that you are listing, or wish to list, will fit into a package measuring less than 2.5cm thick then you are unaffected by the changes."

 

Solution: hit it with a hammer until it fits in a 2.5cm thick envelope.

 

Sorted.

 

K.

 

That gave me my first laugh of the day