Royal Mail new prices 7th October

[tommystrezures]

Some ridiculous price increases from Royal Mail announced such as a first class stamp going up from 1.35 to 1.65!!

https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalmail.com/files/2024-09/our-prices-october-2024-v1-ta.pdf

Online prices here:

https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalmail.com/files/2024-09/online-price-guide-october-2024-v1-ta.pd...

[tressygirl]

Crumbs that's some hike all round !😠

[tommystrezures]

Just had my postmaster send me it through not pretty......

[a45heaven]

ebay will be happy at least 😞

more fee grabs for doing squatt for it

[bojangled]

Thanks @tommystrezures 

Second class letter holding steady at 85p though.

It's International at £2.80 a 30p increase which is harsh for me. 
Jo

[modnation-controllers]

Wow standard parcel now at £3.75 for just a delivery confirmation number if you even get that.

I can send a parcel fully tracked with a picture with Evri for £2.45 and Yodel for £2.40.

I changed to Evri about 6 months ago and have sent over 1000 parcels since and not one has gone missing yet and with royal mail i am forever dealing with delays and items not being scanned properly.

I can only imagine they will lose even more business customers now especially with the fines they are giving people

[pillarboxgifts]

My concern about postage increases is that Ebay don't seem to increase their maximum postage allowances to reflect any increase. Infact, I contacted them about this and they havent changed them for quite a few years in which time there have been multiple Royal Mail price increases. 

It costs me £3.39 to send a box set Cd Tracked 48 but I am only allowed to charge £3.50.

After packaging costs and fees taken out for postage, I make a loss.

How is making a loss good business practice? Yeah, it isnt.

[txt.ltd]

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@pillarboxgifts wrote:

My concern about postage increases is that Ebay don't seem to increase their maximum postage allowances to reflect any increase. Infact, I contacted them about this and they havent changed them for quite a few years in which time there have been multiple Royal Mail price increases. 

It costs me £3.39 to send a box set Cd Tracked 48 but I am only allowed to charge £3.50.

After packaging costs and fees taken out for postage, I make a loss.

How is making a loss good business practice? Yeah, it isnt.

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Yeah. If it costs you 3.39 net you need to charge 4.82 just to break even. Don't forget the per-order fee and the regulatory fee. Oh, and add some in to cover fraud. Just charge 5.50 or so. It's lovely too when buyers whine that someone charging 5.50 when it costs them only 3.39 is ripping them off.

[pillarboxred]

Privatisation and online postage payment (QR labels)  has damaged the Post Office so you have to pay their prices or go elsewhere. Blame Margaret Thatcher and her political descendants and the advent of other, online,delivery providers (which do a poor job too).

[pillarboxred]

Break up used boxed sets  and sell the CDs individually unless they tell a continuous story.  An individual CD can be popped in a photo envelope.

CDs can be donated or binned as they have no commercial value unless very rare and desirable. Soon we won't be able to buy working CD players and repairs will cost fortunes. CDs deteriorate over time and will become unplayable novelty coasters or Christmas tree ornaments.

[thesmokingrunner]

The Post Office is separate to Royal Mail, pillarboxred, and hasn't been privatised. And as Margaret Thatcher ceased being PM in 1990 - 23 years before Royal Mail was privatised - I think your attempt to pin the blame on her for the current mess at Royal Mail is tenuous at least.

Still, you probably wouldn't want facts to get in the way of an anti-Conservative whinge would you?

[twee-cottage]

Royal Mail prices went up but when using eBay app, it's still coming up with the old prices. I can't list new items showing todays new prices. How long does it take eBay to change their postage options to new Royal Mail prices? 

[emporium-111]

Does anyone know where the pdf with the online prices can be found? (The link above doesn't seem to have it anymore.)

[61stephenuk]

Online Prices

https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalmail.com/files/2024-10/online-price-guide-october-2024-v3-ta.pd...

[emporium-111]

Great, thanks!
Out of curiosity, how did you find that? I did a few searches and just got the old, inactive link.