Changes to Second Class and Economy Delivery Speeds

[qualitycardsandgifts]

I have a Royal Mail business account and received this email yesterday.     I hope eBay will be adjusting their delivery estimates accordingly. I have a Royal Mail business account and received this email yesterday. I hope eBay will be adjusting their delivery estimates.

[amldesign]

re: business post changes

From what i understand,

if you use PPI labels via Royal mail OBA that is classed as business post, 

so will only deliver mon, wed and friday

you need to update your PPI labels to the newer version 

personally i think they need to change the 2nd class delivery time to 3/4 working days anyway, as it is unreliable and will help sellers using business post mail.

what i do not understand is if you use stamps, that's not affected, its as if they are penalising business accounts as they get it slightly cheaper.

most of my post is letters and the odd large letter, so i may just use stamps in the future

PPI, grey bags and oba  and dropping off at post office is a bit of a pain anyway, when you have local letter boxes / parcel boxes

i have emailed oba for an exact answer

andy

[santlache_sales]

A highly dubious policy which has taken hundreds of pounds of us in rip off fees....a stealth fee introduced with the usual eBay lies and a total distortion of the truth.

So yes, I am still very hacked off about it as I don't like someone shafting me, and that is what eBay are doing to everyone when they steal 10% of our P&P fees.

It was also when I lost any respect I ever had for eBay as a company.

[santlache_sales]

£2.70 delivery in 2–3 days.

Which is Royal Mail Tracked 48 - and that service actually costs £2-80 now and eBay haven't updated Royal Mail's latest price increases from TWO MONTHS ago, and again NOTHING is allowed for packaging, or the 10% eBay steal in fees.

[sml192]

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@santlache_sales wrote:

£2.70 delivery in 2–3 days.

Which is Royal Mail Tracked 48 - and that service actually costs £2-80 now and eBay haven't updated Royal Mail's latest price increases from TWO MONTHS ago, and again NOTHING is allowed for packaging, or the 10% eBay steal in fees.

£2.80 is the over the counter price.  It is still £2.70 when purchased online. 

[superchallenge]

A Royal Mail Tracked 48 large letter purchased via eBay is £2.70. Or at least it was when I bought one last night.

If you're paying for postage over the counter, then I don't know what to tell you.

[moldosgifts]

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@therenewalworkshopltd wrote:

Parcel services are not effected by this.  So RM24/48 etc is as normal.

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Just checking you do know it is also a large letter service not just a parcel service.

[therenewalworkshopltd]

Not entirely sure what you mean tbh?

RM24/48 LL is classed as a parcel service.

Standard LL is a letter service.  ie 1st & 2nd class.

The above has been confirmed via RM support.

[moldosgifts]

Your funny i have used rm48 for years i mostly post LL not parcels.

It is a service that has both on it you pay much less for LL over parcels.

So they are a separate service not the same.

Only thing they share is the same online code .

[darth_baggins]

It's just the name of the service. Forget whether you're sending LL or parcels. The name of the product is RM48 which is called a parcel service, regardless of what you send.

[therenewalworkshopltd]

Strangely enough, I've used them for years as well.

Not entirely sure what is funny about what I wrote, as has been confirmed by darth_baggins!

RM24/48 whether parcel or Large letter are both classed as a parcels by Royal Mail.

If you don't believe me, ask them yourself!