Royal Mail announce price increases for April 2010
by Sue Bailey
Royal Mail have announced that from April 2010, the price of a first class stamp will increase to 41p (up 5.1%). Second class will increase to 32p. For businesses sending meter and account mail, prices remain the same at 36p and 25p respectively.
The news for those sending out goods through the post is worse. Large letter prices will increase between 5p and 10p depending on weight: new prices start at 66p for up to 100g (up 8.2%). Packets will start at £1.39 for up to 100g, an increase of 11p (up 8.6%)
Recorded (signed for) will go down a penny from 75p to 74p.
Postcomm, the postal service regulator, has previously said that Royal Mail needed the increases to compensate for falls in the numbers of letters sent: this despite the fact that Royal Mail had an operating profit of £184m for the six months to September. The changes have hit larger items disproportionately hard; any regular seller who is still paying the normal over-the-counter price for their RM postage should now be looking at one of the bulk discounted services offered to small and medium sized businesses.
The full tariff can be found in Royal Mail’s pdf.
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Thanks for this one Sue.
Desperatly looking for the special eBay Free P&P tariff.
No, I couldn’t find that either Richard. Must be in a Speshul Sekrit Squirrl place, ehh.
What will happen to tracked prices? They are negotiated with a one price fits all fee.
I have just sold something at 3:30 on 22nd of December to someone from Spain. I have a note on my listings saying the next posting date is 29th. He has said ,in Spanish, please make sure I get it for Christmas as it is for a present.
Do you think he is very optimistic or is he shopping early for next year?
Some good news, account prices for letters and large letters are unchanged, but packets up slightly.
Recorded Delivery reduced by 1p to 74p eh? It may as well be FREE because 1 in 3 are not signed for by the lazy postmen – and yes I do always claim for every one that doesn’t get a signature – but it doesn’t stop dishonest buyers using the opportunity to make a false INR claim when the postman just pushed it through the letterbox. If everyone claimed for RDs that were unsigned for, RM would get their act together. As it is so few people bother to check let alone claim that they can afford to pay out to the few who can be bothered to pursue them.
And ISF up 55p. I will no longer be patronising eBay UK sellers who tell me I have to pay for signed for for every £3 item.
Sue Bailey obviously doesn’t sell much on ebay, or she would realise the reason sellers are charging for ISF is that Paypal now make it a REQUIREMENT to use it if you want seller protection, otherwise sellers are not covered in the event of loss, and paypal will remove “compensation” funds from the sellers account if the seller can’t prove it was sent ISF and produce paperwork. Kindly direct your anger at Paypal, not the sellers who are forced into this ridiculous situation.
Thanks Jason, but I’ll continue to direct my not-purchasing at unprofessional sellers who can’t see a bigger picture, who don’t self-insure and who treat every transaction on their business like it’s the only one. Anger? Meh, no.
Would that be the same Sue with over 60,000 feedback or is it a different Sue Bailey you’re talking about?
“Sue Bailey obviously doesn’t sell much on ebay”
ISF protects you from bugger all,
once it leaves the UK it could fall off the end of the world.
Royal mail would not know, and unless its signed for paypal would refund the buyer regardless
I like Norf’s previous comment on ISF – “it’s a tax on paranoia”.
Also I have to tell any worried sellers that in the last four years, I’ve only ONCE been asked to sign for an ISF.
Forced?…I’m not aware of any forcing going on.
Do you mean that because you haven’t thought to cost the occassional lost item into your business model that you feel you have no other choice other than to charge ALL your buyers an extra LARGE fee on top of their shipping?
…Is that what you mean by force?
I needed this. More or the same please.
Oh my sides are hurting !
So, if you up your postal charges to account for RM increases, I expect that means you’ll get a few more 1’s and 2’s for postage & packing and kiss goodbye to any chance of getting that nice shiny TRS badge?
Kevin, chin up, old chap
Are buyers really going to get upset over a 10p increase? Or, you know, a 11.75p increase if you’re VAT-reg. I’m going to suggest they won’t even notice.
Still can’t find the special eBay Free P&P tariff, think I’ll email support at eBay just for the hell of it….. well it Christmas.
do it do it, goodness knows we need a laugh.
Let us know if you get a response.
It’s tempting.
On a positive note, anyone who sends a lot of packets via packetpost that weigh 751-1000g per item will have a price decrease of 4.9p per item 1st class and 3.9p 2nd class. Sadly this isn’t me but may be useful to someone