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| Posted by blackfox: Sat May 4th, 2013 01:47 | 1st Post |
| this really only concerns u.k based togs ,we all tend to sell our unwanted gear from time to time and i did that the other day selling a medium sized shoulder bag on e/bay . no problem there sold and i charged the seller what i thought was a reasonable £5 p&p ,the trouble started when i got to the post office counter and found they have upped there prices through the roof ,the parcel which weighed under 1kg would have cost just under £10 to post and there is no longer a cheaper alternative i.e parcel post or 2nd class etc .this applies right across the board apparently on anything larger than letter size .i its cheaper to post something to elsewhere in the world than to your next town . my solution was to sign up to collect plus couriers and then drop the same parcel into my local paper shop (next door to the p.o) and it gets picked up from there total cost with a tracking number and insured £3.99 . so be aware if you sell anything or post anything .
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| Posted by Robert: Sat May 4th, 2013 02:13 | 2nd Post |
| I read about this the other day, it depends on volume as well as weight now, was what I remember, so bulky items can be more expensive than heavy ones. What bugs me is eBays insistence that you must send some stuff for free??? That includes computer components, or did? I broke a computer for somebody once and the cost of sending some of the parts was prohibitive, they ended up in the skip. How anybody can sell stuff at the price they do like CD's an things, and not charge postage I really don't know. One of the many reasons I avoid eBay and their 'policies' like the plague.
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| Posted by jk: Sat May 4th, 2013 04:32 | 3rd Post |
| Well the answer as Jeff has found is to use these smaller couriers. There is also a very good verion that works for all over the world and they provide door to door service. http://www.parcel2go.com In a changing world where letters are a rarity as email can do everything a letter can I do wonder why people still use letters for everything except court summons and other legal communications that need to be signed for.
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| Posted by Eric: Sat May 4th, 2013 09:25 | 4th Post |
jk wrote:
Sending invoices? :thumbsup:
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| Posted by Eric: Sat May 4th, 2013 09:44 | 5th Post |
| I have been restricted by to a monthly selling limit for a year now because of a bad rating ( not feedback ...thats100%) . It's this star rating system that buyers are encouraged to score you on. Guess what ...I was marked down on postage charges. 2 greedy woman having won small heavy yet fragile items for a fraction of their retail value were aggrieved I charged the going rate for protecting their purchases in the post. I argued with eBay, to no avail that, in the UK it's impossible to get people to give sellers 5 stars for postage charges...because even when done at cost, buyers still think the seller is the villain...not Royal Mail. Buyers also think postage is "a stamp" ...when its packaging materials and time to organise it all as well. I now put a statement on the bottom of every auction stating that people shouldn't bother bidding if they think the postage is ott. It's clear royal mail don't want to be bothered with the traditional part of their business...general public and general mail. They just want lucrative commercial work. The government should never have privatised the mail...or water....or power. >:( I haven't quite got my head round the new parcel sizing. I took a parcel down today and though it wouldn't go through their slot thingie ...it still went 1st class post for £5.20????
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| Posted by jk: Sat May 4th, 2013 10:16 | 6th Post |
Eric wrote: jk wrote:  Take cash it is easier!! I always used to send those by PDF in email.
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| Posted by jk: Sat May 4th, 2013 10:19 | 7th Post |
Eric wrote: It's clear royal mail don't want to be bothered with the traditional part of their business...general public and general mail. They just want lucrative commercial work. The government should never have privatised the mail...or water....or power. Hmmm agree. Nor Gas, trains and electricity. At least the woman who did it wont be able to repeat the exercise!!
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| Posted by Eric: Sat May 4th, 2013 10:33 | 8th Post |
jk wrote:Eric wrote:It's clear royal mail don't want to be bothered with the traditional part of their business...general public and general mail. They just want lucrative commercial work. The government should never have privatised the mail...or water....or power. Wouldn't blame her for making mistakes, when on balance she turned the country round. Can't make omelettes without breaking eggs. Sadly today's politicians haven't got the b*lls to make hard decisions...when they are needed. What's obvious to the man in the street is avoided like the plague by todays politicians. Hence what we see with this UKIP vote. Of course...they would be no different if, God Forbid, they ever got the chance in a position of power.
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| Posted by richw: Sat May 4th, 2013 19:01 | 9th Post |
jk wrote:Eric wrote:Not sure about trains, when I caught a train in England last year it was 100 times better than I remember it being under British Rail.It's clear royal mail don't want to be bothered with the traditional part of their business...general public and general mail. They just want lucrative commercial work. The government should never have privatised the mail...or water....or power.
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| Posted by Eric: Sun May 5th, 2013 12:43 | 10th Post |
richw wrote: jk wrote:I agree, the trains are better....but more expensive. Royal mail cant even claim an improvement. I still miss the old steam trains! 
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| Posted by blackfox: Sun May 5th, 2013 17:09 | 11th Post |
| I still miss the old steam trains! so does ronnie biggs
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| Posted by jk: Sun May 5th, 2013 17:43 | 12th Post |
| Bluebell Railway is still there at Horsted Keynes!
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| Posted by martin_wynne: Tue May 7th, 2013 09:58 | 13th Post |
Eric wrote:Wouldn't blame her for making mistakes, when on balance she turned the country round.If that awful woman had really "turned Britain round", you would today be buying a British camera as the best in the world, instead of a Japanese one. Britain today is an ugly and intimidating place compared with the one in which I grew up, and she was the architect of that change. Wilfully carried out without an ounce of compassion or concern for the communities she destroyed and the people whose lives she blighted forever, describing them as "the enemy within". Great swathes of Britain's industrial heritage were laid waste, some never to recover. Across much of Britain the hatred and loathing remain, undimmed after 30 years. Martin.
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| Posted by jk: Tue May 7th, 2013 12:29 | 14th Post |
martin_wynne wrote: Eric wrote:Wouldn't blame her for making mistakes, when on balance she turned the country round.If that awful woman had really "turned Britain round", you would today be buying a British camera as the best in the world, instead of a Japanese one. Whilst I have great admiration for the way she handled the situation in the Falklands at the time there is still a question regarding the events before and whether if they had been handled better the whole situation might have been avoided. I think her handling of the UK industrial situation was as Martin says completely without any form of compassion or concern for the events that woudl follow the 'crushing of the unions'. Today's situation is partially down to her and the legislation that she brought in which effectively destroyed the British engineering and creative inventiveness with machinery and electronics. It is actually recovering to a degree now but it is long way off where it could be. For me the jury is out on the degree and amount of damage done but it is considerable some was by her and the rest was self-inflicted by the unions not knowing which battles to fight!
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| Posted by highlander: Sun Jul 21st, 2013 05:22 | 15th Post |
| Before we get completely off subject - anyone complaining about post should try having an Inverness postcode... Next day delivery by Parcelforce = 7-10 days, of which it will spend at least 5 of those days sitting in the offices at Aberdeen. Special Delivery does arrive the next day but the earlier delivery 9am is not available. Most couriers won't delivery next day here anymore and I have actually stopped using a number of photographic supplies companies because they insist on Parcel Force or similiar. I can get an item fully insured, tracked, and delivered in 3 days from the USA via UPS. But I can't get anything delivered from Glasgow even in under 4 days.
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| Posted by Eric: Sun Jul 21st, 2013 07:52 | 16th Post |
highlander wrote: Before we get completely off subject - anyone complaining about post should try having an Inverness postcode...Ah but you have nice scenery to look at while you are waiting, Jan.  Good to see you posting again.
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| Posted by amazing50: Tue Jul 23rd, 2013 00:15 | 17th Post |
| We have the same high postage problem in Canada and it makes selling on eBay difficult.
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| Posted by ramyatej: Fri Jul 14th, 2017 05:00 | 18th Post |
| Try DTDC Canada! It is the leading International Courier Services in Canada that specializes in providing fastest and affordable courier services worldwide. Visit here http://canada.dtdc.com/
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| Posted by jk: Fri Jul 14th, 2017 14:27 | 19th Post |
| These independent courier are the future. The PO in UK is still thinking people send letters and it is their business to deliver. In reality letter post is either bills that should be downloaded and/or printed as required. Parcels should be it business and it should be competeing head on with the small players and able to undercut them.
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| Posted by highlander: Mon Aug 21st, 2017 05:05 | 20th Post |
| Had to update this after an experience on Friday. I wanted to order a new Peak Design Leash, the new version. I found that Camera World had them in stock at £34.95 plus P&P. I put in my postcode, was told I was a special delivery Highlands and Islands, told it would be 3-4 days not next day, and £14.99 to deliver. I cancelled the order and sent them an email to tell them what I thought of this excessive charge. As usual they blamed their courier DPD. Which, as I pointed out to them was odd, since DPD delivered to me last week for £4.99...they had no answer to that. I ended up ordering it from FotoSense with £3.99 Royal Mail first class delivery, or free postage if I was happy to wait 3-5 days. I should also point out that Park Camera's would have delivered it without any additional location related charges but won't have them in stock until Thursday and I wanted it before then if possible.
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| Posted by Bob Bowen: Fri Aug 25th, 2017 08:28 | 21st Post |
| Fortunate to have a shop in our village that also runs a parcel business. Send lots to Germany where our son lives and the local chap is half Royal Mail cost. he even packs as well. Sadly talking of retiring.
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