Guest Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 We have just had the new Royal Mail leaflet explaining the new postal rates Is it me or what? Another load of unfathomable jargon to make life more difficult What was wrong with 1st and 2nd class letters and parcels? Now it is all about the size of your letter Anyway off to get my tape measure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 We had ours last week. Although I understand how it works, I can't see me remembering about size as well as weight and which class. I'll just have to stick to little envelopes! Seems too complicated, but maybe we'll get used to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyren Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 www.royalmail.com doesn't work properly in Firefox (at least not on Linux, which I use at work), so I can't read the new rules Not that I send much snail-mail these days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 We've been working on thsi for ages at work, as I oversee 5 offices. I went to the post office to get some of the new posters detailing how to weigh/measure your letters and the rates - there had been a mis-print and thousands of leaflets had had to be trashed More in later. We have our rulers and instruction sheets though. The Post Office I went to were mocking the new system as a load of rubbish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Is this just not another way for them to charge us more money for a poor service? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 I have a theory (joke?) that it maintains jobs and keeps PO's open because people have to queue up to post letters. Remember how they wanted to close lots of PO's e.g. in rural areas and have now created lots of new services..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 They've closed all of our local post offices. The queues at the main ones are huge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I don't go if I can help it. I buy stamps in bulk direct from their website and use the website to get prices for the weights of things. That way I hardly ever need to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 This now means that for my work place (a charity) to send out our newsletter, one sheet of A3 folded to A4, will cost about 40% more. I'm sure that's a great improvement and reflection of the true cost of posting them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 How much would it cost if it were 2 A4 sheets folded to A5? I'm sure you won't be the only charity affected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I am ordering in more A5 envelopes at work so that we can send things cheaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 How much would it cost if it were 2 A4 sheets folded to A5? I'm sure you won't be the only charity affected. It would be cheaper to post but more expensive at the printers to get them to collate and then fold A4 to A5. At the mo they print A3 double sided for us and then as it comes out of that machine it goes straight into folding machine that folds it in half. Either way we do it we are going to pay a lot more. Just a matter of sorting out which id the cheapest option Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 I'll get majorly affected with the new post thing. As some of the larger plastic hens will have to be sent as parcel sizes even if they weigh less than 100g! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
