Well it all worked out nicely as today was to be my first day using the Online Business Account with the Royal Mail, and it was a reasonably quiet day.
No problems, it all appeared quite simple, the phone support was excellent, and no waiting in the queue at the Post Office.
In short very impressed.
I had parcels going to the UK, EU and the rest of the world. Total cost £29, had it been stamps it would have been £35.
I shall see how this continues.
Janners
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guarddog14
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wait till the post office gets the hump with you as they realise there not making money now and just for the next months turn to be complete and utter ###### .
mine now apparently cant take my stuff as they 'dont have room' however they had room when i was paying more and it was going through them
mine now apparently cant take my stuff as they 'dont have room' however they had room when i was paying more and it was going through them
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Play around with different combinations of how you log stuff in the batch - especially if you have packages of different weights, it can work out better or worse if you group all the items into one line with their average weight, or to group the items of the same weight into their own lines - hope that makes sense!
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GoonerGary
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So do they take an average weight and charge you? So 30 mugs plus a single 62p letter could bring the total price down??
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Hi Pisq.
That makes sense. I was pondering that earlier...but the red wine wasn't helping!
Guarddog14, that was mentioned on another forum. They are contractually obliged to take it. If they don't and you report it they get a warning. This apparently is quite a scare for the postmaster / mistress.
That makes sense. I was pondering that earlier...but the red wine wasn't helping!
Guarddog14, that was mentioned on another forum. They are contractually obliged to take it. If they don't and you report it they get a warning. This apparently is quite a scare for the postmaster / mistress.
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Yes, you log how many parcels are in the sack and what the average weight per item is.
Sometimes it works out better to just log them all as one batch, other times it's better to split them into separate batches.
We take our sacks sraight to the local depot as it's only 5 min walk, whereas post office is 10 mins. If I need to go into town though, I can throw them over the counter at the Post Office into a pile of other dropped off sacks - no communication takes place for them to complain - but they were trying to persuade me to get an OBA account for months before RM Business phoned us.
Sometimes it works out better to just log them all as one batch, other times it's better to split them into separate batches.
We take our sacks sraight to the local depot as it's only 5 min walk, whereas post office is 10 mins. If I need to go into town though, I can throw them over the counter at the Post Office into a pile of other dropped off sacks - no communication takes place for them to complain - but they were trying to persuade me to get an OBA account for months before RM Business phoned us.
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Gooner.
If I remember correctly, you are much the same as me in that working smarter not harder is far more appealing. So you might like these figures
I sort mine as the rates are lower.
All my EU parcels go in 1 bag, Rest of world parcels in another, UK 1st class letters in another, 2nd class large letters in another etc. So I don't think for me it makes a difference to juggle weights.
However there is a no sort option where it may pay to consider the options.
Here is an example of why it works for me ...Parcels to USA
1 parcel at 1900 g, 10 parcels at 400g, total weight = 5900g.
That bag is charged at £1.30 per item total £14.30
plus £6.65 per kilo = £39.24
Grand total = £53.54
If I sent this by royal mail with stamps it would be 10 x £7.45 = £74.50, plus 1 x £23.65 = £98.15
So a saving of £44.61.
I send that sort of volume to the USA twice a week. I like those savings!
No increase in turnover, no extra work, no closer to VAT registration But nearly £90 per week more profit!
If I remember correctly, you are much the same as me in that working smarter not harder is far more appealing. So you might like these figures
I sort mine as the rates are lower.
All my EU parcels go in 1 bag, Rest of world parcels in another, UK 1st class letters in another, 2nd class large letters in another etc. So I don't think for me it makes a difference to juggle weights.
However there is a no sort option where it may pay to consider the options.
Here is an example of why it works for me ...Parcels to USA
1 parcel at 1900 g, 10 parcels at 400g, total weight = 5900g.
That bag is charged at £1.30 per item total £14.30
plus £6.65 per kilo = £39.24
Grand total = £53.54
If I sent this by royal mail with stamps it would be 10 x £7.45 = £74.50, plus 1 x £23.65 = £98.15
So a saving of £44.61.
I send that sort of volume to the USA twice a week. I like those savings!
No increase in turnover, no extra work, no closer to VAT registration But nearly £90 per week more profit!
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Not sure if I explained what I meant by juggling weights very well...
If you have one bag of 10 parcels, 1 parcel at 1900 g, 10 parcels at 400g, total weight = 5900g
You could book them in as 10 parcels at average weight of 590g
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1 parcel at 1900g and 9 parcels at average weight of 400g, as seperate lines but still for the same bag
this is what I meant by juggling, seeing which way of booking in the different packages can save you money
If you have one bag of 10 parcels, 1 parcel at 1900 g, 10 parcels at 400g, total weight = 5900g
You could book them in as 10 parcels at average weight of 590g
or
1 parcel at 1900g and 9 parcels at average weight of 400g, as seperate lines but still for the same bag
this is what I meant by juggling, seeing which way of booking in the different packages can save you money
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I didn't think you were allowed to do that re juggling weights, thought you could only separate by class, so 1st class letters, 1st class parcels etc. So if you had one big parcel it would bring the cost up for the other small ones? We don't send many abroad so have just been adding each one separately so don't do average weights on these.
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Just spoke to Royal Mail and you can split them over multiple lines in OBA or combine them so you can work out which is cheaper for you. Our average weight is nearly always under the 1kg limit so pay the same for each parcel anyway.
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