Wife went to PO this morning to post some bars I am selling – they are wrapped as a tube which is 80 cm long, about 10cm dia. £11 🙁 seems a lot ?

try collect plus or my hermes

^^^ I think she has sent them anyway….. 🙁

£2.78 with myhermes, or IIRC £3.78 with a bit more insurance.

It ought to be a royal mail medium parcel with those dimensions I reckon so maybe it’s weight or insurance that’s pushing it up?

it’s over the max size for a medium parcel – 60cm.
https://business.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/89/~/size-and-weight-formats-for-uk-mail

It’s really hard to ship ‘oversize’ stuff at a decent price without a contract.

simons_nicolai-uk – Member

it’s over the max size for a medium parcel – 60cm.

Nah, tubes have different rules.
“Length + twice the diameter must be 104cm or less. No one dimension can exceed 90cm.”

I tried to post something recently and the helpful 😡 woman at the PO reckoned it didn’t quite fit in whatever parcel category I wanted (I’d measured it, it did) so it’d need to go Parcelforce, £16. I said no thanks, took it bag to the office, repacked it slightly smaller, took it back to the PO, posted it second class £2.80 😯

Can work out expensive just going to the PO without knowing the rules as the staff often don’t know either.

it is £11 at postoffice, I had the same experience sadly, think I just paid for them on Parcelforce 24 as it was just as cheap

Bars I think went Hermes – just under size.
£11 sounds plausible – especially if quite wide bars..

From the PO website: For tube-shaped items, the length of the item plus twice the diameter must not exceed 104cm, with the greatest dimension being no more than 90cm.. You should be able to send it as a medium parcel

I posted some a few months ago through my Hermes, it was around £3-4
PO also quoted me £11 which is daylight robbery

If you have a big cardboard square box 600*600*600 then the 800 bars will fit in diagonally and youll get the lower rate.

MyHermes by far the cheapest, under £3.

Collect+ about £2 more and technically don’t accept parcels that wide, but I’ve never had problems.

I have used My Hermes in the past as they don’t have a silly length limit like RM

“Length + twice the diameter must be 104cm or less. No one dimension can exceed 90cm.”

At the current rate for bar growth by 2018 won’t be able to post ‘enduro’ bars 🙂

retrieved 🙂 The Boss hadn’t gone back to PO, so myHermes done, at £3, cheers all

Post Office knocked me back for am 800mm bar at the poster rate last week, hence discovering MyHermes were much more reasonable.

Most Post Offices don’t understand the Tube = Medium Parcel rule, so will charge for Large Parcel or Parcel Force.

Royal Mail Price Finder shows that it would cost £4.89 via Second Class which is equivalent to Hermes.

Hermes is £2.70 though.

chakaping – Member
Hermes is £2.70 though.

Yeah, but it’s Hermes. It could arrive at ANY time and by ANY method short of an orbital catapult.

simons_nicolai-uk – Member

it’s over the max size for a medium parcel – 60cm.
https://business.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/89/~/size-and-weight-formats-for-uk-mail

It’s really hard to ship ‘oversize’ stuff at a decent price without a contract.

Tell me about it, sold a FS frame to a guy in Russia (that was a mistake) anyway, lovely guy, but our usual courier shagged me over, estimated £30, actually wanted £120 when I sent it.

Took it to the PO, the guy got the book out and worked out the cheapest way would be £60… so I sent it, only after he’d taken the money he said “it’s a shame you couldn’t split it in two, it would have been less than £20.. but you can’t split a bike frame ha ha ha”.

Which, of course I could have, quiet easily…

Post office counter staff are evil! Full stop.

Worse than doctor’s receptionists.

I tried to post some Alton Towers tickets once and as usual they asked what is in the envelope/package as I was sending it by recorded mail, they then asked a value and said I needed to ensure them which I declined as the person I was sending them to didn’t want them insured.

I was then told that I could not post them unless I paid for the insurance!

Daffy – Member

Yeah, but it’s Hermes. It could arrive at ANY time and by ANY method short of an orbital catapult.

I’m at about 1000 parcels now I think, they’ve broken 1 (which was a bad ‘un, the courier threw it over a fence) and lost I think 3. But their compensation process is quick and painless which balances that out. TBH I’d rather deal with them than royal mail, now.

*cough*

Email me iainc.

😳

I swear the fatest women on earth behind my local PO and convenience shop looks at an item I have to send i.e. Bars and goes errrrm yep let me think about that a moment, that’ll be £13 to send those cheapest service.

A flat 630mm bar which what takes up all of the posties door space in his vauxhall corsa or whstever cack they turn up in.
Royal Mail are beyond a joke for a long time now.

But going to PO other day to send some five tens off to a forum member I was expecting from said fattest woman on earth that’ll be £9 cheapest service or so but noooooooo!

£2.85!! So I ran with that and got the hell out of there before she realised I had took her good n proper.

when i sold some bars on STW maybe 10 years ago it was fine (600mm)
Last bars i sent i had to repack to get under some PO limit (750mm)
Probably will just stockpile current fashion of 800 mm bars.

There is also (according to the grumpy hag in the PO) a different limit at main POs.

I wish the PO would sort it’s self out as i can see that the crazy pricing, and inability to compete with hermes etc, is going to ruin it.

Either I have the same local post office as you or they deliberately recruit unhelpful, obstructive and passive aggressive counter staff.

Weirdly I was in a post office a couple of days ago and the really fat woman behind the counter was wearing five tens…

How did you get to see the feet of the woman behind the PO counter? 😕

oh and yes, Hermes for most things tbh. Been doing a lot of selling lately and used hermes a lot.

Under 1″ thick and less that £20: Royal Mail large letter
Over 1″ thick and value £30-50 and small enough for a small parcel: RM small parcels signed for
Outside of RM small parcels and up to £25: Hermes
Anything else look at Hermes insurance etc on top of the normal service.