Xmas posting much cheaper up north too : do that while you're there

gigino

Save about 60% posting parcels and cards to friends and relatives in England, Australia, New Zealand, France etc by posting from Northern Ireland.

Do it as soon as you can, and send a card from there to our minister for finance telling him not to raise our vat rate and hit retailers here ( who already have higher vat and rates and insurance and other costs ). If everyone done this it may get the point across and save thousands of jobs in our economy. Our postage costs and other costs should be lowered here, not vat raised.

Basq

Good thought.. but not really practical unless you're going up North anyways.

Have nieces and nephews in Lisbon.. their gifts are being sent from Amazon

Gift wrapping costs £3 per item but shipping is free.

Richard

gigino wrote: »

Save about 60% posting parcels and cards to friends and relatives in England, Australia, New Zealand, France etc by posting from Northern Ireland.

Do it as soon as you can, and send a card from there to our minister for finance telling him not to raise our vat rate

Although that would cost you 68p, instead of 55 cents!


If you're there, anywhere, it might well make sense. You can check prices online to see whether it's worth it.

gigino

I went to post a parcel of several kg to England recently. The local post office wanted € 27.50 ( and that was just basic post, it was not registered or insured ) http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/PostalRates/Standard+Post.htm , I got it posted in the north for a third of that.

smk89

You can now also pay for postage online for letters and parcels with Royal Mail so you only need a post box. Its a pretty handy service, I was using it for my ebaying last summer.

007.57

smk89 wrote: »

You can now also pay for postage online for letters and parcels with Royal Mail so you only need a post box. Its a pretty handy service, I was using it for my ebaying last summer.

can you eleborate on this please? can you pay for postage online, then what? do u receive postage labels in the mail to stick on a package then return to a post box?

do u have a link? tried looking on royal mail website

bb1234567

007.57 wrote: »

can you eleborate on this please? can you pay for postage online, then what? do u receive postage labels in the mail to stick on a package then return to a post box?

do u have a link? tried looking on royal mail website

this facility has been available since 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail_Online_Postage

smk89

007.57 wrote: »

smk89 wrote: »

You can now also pay for postage online for letters and parcels with Royal Mail so you only need a post box. Its a pretty handy service, I was using it for my ebaying last summer.

can you eleborate on this please? can you pay for postage online, then what? do u receive postage labels in the mail to stick on a package then return to a post box?

do u have a link? tried looking on royal mail website

Well I originally did it through Paypal as it gives you the option to when you sell items on Ebay UK. But you can go through royal mail personal section, pay for your postage online and you then print it out with your printer. Ill get you the link later, im on a phone

smk89

Heres the link, you simply enter the address you want it sent to (probably will need a UK return address that can be faked) and then you print it out.

To get proof of postage which is needed to claim on non delivery you need a sheet signed in the post office but you can bung it in the letter box without this. Also there is a 3-5 day expiry date on the postage so best to do it the night before. And also there is a minimum payment on the card payment option so best to make multiple labels so their cost adds together and you can pay for them all at once.
Apart from that its a great service that has saved me so much money as you can remove packing to lower the weight so its cheaper to send, and you don't have to stand behind old people collecting their pension!