Author Topic: Postal Charges (Read 7358 times)

Brucklay · « **Reply #15 on:** March 28, 2012, 03:07:05 pm »

Done think I've every got anything next day when I was in Perthshire - 6 miles from Perth and now it Aberdeenshire it's more like 3 days!!

Berkshire Boy · « **Reply #16 on:** March 28, 2012, 03:28:03 pm »

Ah well that's Scotland, even so bet you couldn't deliver it for 60p in 3 days.

Brucklay · « **Reply #17 on:** March 28, 2012, 03:35:58 pm »

Not saying I could Berkshire Boy or would wished to - but if it says next day it should be next day - if it said next day to Edinburgh and Glasgow and 4 days to the rest of Scotland I accept that is how long it was going to take - in my business if I say something I'd expected to do it or loose clients.

ellisr · « **Reply #18 on:** March 28, 2012, 04:29:15 pm »

Common sense says you couldn't deliver a single letter for 60p but I don't know of any post office vans that carry a single letter. 1.6 billion letters per annum @ 60p now I bet I could manage to deliver for that and make a profit

lill · « **Reply #19 on:** March 28, 2012, 06:33:10 pm »

1.6 bil x .60 is a hell of a lot of money, and they say they don't make money, it does not all go for wages, bet they get their big fat bonuses at the top of the tree and the wee men and women are the ones that are paying, as Robert says they are not transporting just 1 letter in a van, lorry or aeroplane, just my thoughts on the price hike.

deepinthewoods · « **Reply #20 on:** March 28, 2012, 06:57:19 pm »

i reckon that theyve just increased the price to make the buisness appear profitable to justify a good share price when its floated on the market next year.

Fowgill Farm · « **Reply #21 on:** March 29, 2012, 09:15:06 am »

Quote from: deepinthewoods on March 28, 2012, 06:57:19 pm

i reckon that theyve just increased the price to make the buisness appear profitable to justify a good share price when its floated on the market next year.

Exactly right. And then it will be ripe for selling.
The company i work for has to tender for its contract with RM every two years, we are constantly threatened with them taking the business abroad. Our prices have been screwed back again this time around. The orange dots you see on your letters are made with ink made by where i work we ship it to all the main RM sorting offices for their printers/leter sorters. It is worth a great deal of money to us. If RM goes where will a small company employing 6 people like us be?
As for the price increase look at the hike in feue prices in comparision over the last few years,now that is daylight robbery and i don't see any of you giving up your motors!
Its like i said use it or lose it.
Mandy

ellisr · « **Reply #22 on:** March 29, 2012, 09:19:24 am »

Use it or loose it is right and we have supported our local rural post office, but we are having to look at other ways to get things delivered now as parcel prices will be so expensive it will not be viable to our little business.

Mandy you may be worried for your job but what about mine that needs the service to deliver our goods. Our company is very small and not able to take such increases for too long.

Fowgill Farm · « **Reply #23 on:** March 29, 2012, 09:26:16 am »

You'll be lucky to find anyone cheaper than RM for small items. The big couriers don't want small parcels they're too cumbersome to manage thro their sorting hubs and have to be manualy sorted which is why they leave and regularly sub out that size to RM! (had a TNT stamped letter but del by RM!)
On larger items the couriers will be cheaper but not if you're in the highlands,islands and way out places of our glorious nation, if you're near a major city you may be ok.
Hope you find a way Ellisr.
Mandy

Mel · « **Reply #24 on:** March 29, 2012, 09:28:37 am »

I have to say that I disagree with RM being the cheapest in the World though I cannot speak for general letters,I send parcels all the time and one example of using standard parcels only this week was I would have been charged £11.00 for a parcel whereas using the courier services I have I had it done for under £6.00.

When running a business in the south a few years ago,we always used our local post office for all small items which seemed fine then,but with the price increases since then it was not viable to use them for anything other than letters and these were few and far between.

Sandy · « **Reply #25 on:** April 04, 2012, 04:00:37 pm »

I remember my hubby buying a birthday card after mid day in Lanark to send to his mum the next day...she got it in the morning and I was sooo impressed, thats some going!!!

With the thought of E Mails being looked at we all will be posting more letters, do not get many but they are nice...not the brown ones though!

sabrina · « **Reply #26 on:** April 04, 2012, 04:17:11 pm »

How many will be sending Christmas Cards I wonder, I no longer write letters all emails now, a parcel cost me £12.50 the other day. When the rest of us have to do without pay rises but everything keeps going up something has to give . No wonder family's are falling apart, its too much stress of trying to make ends meet. Does not make sense to me.