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Cost of posting Enfer BVD envelopes

  • 19-04-2013 3:13pm
    #1
    Stan 10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 196 ✭✭


    I know someone who was charged €2.40 to post envelope with 4 samples in Enfer envelope. I got away with 60 cent in my local post office with two samples in it?


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  • #2
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Stan 10 wrote: »
    I know someone who was charged €2.40 to post envelope with 4 samples in Enfer envelope. I got away with 60 cent in my local post office with two samples in it?
    have posted a maximum of 15 in 1 go for 55c-now 60 cent... was the other guy going by registered post ?


  • #3
    Stan 10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 196 ✭✭Stan 10


    whelan1 wrote: »
    have posted a maximum of 15 in 1 go for 55c-now 60 cent... was the other guy going by registered post ?

    No the lady in the PO said that was a parcel so as it was his first tags he knew no better.


  • #4
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    I put 6 samples in a small envelope and use a 55 cent stamp


  • #5
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Stan 10 wrote: »
    No the lady in the PO said that was a parcel so as it was his first tags he knew no better.
    used them envelopes no problem, just stick a 60c stamp on it and post it....


  • #6
    mr.stonewall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭mr.stonewall


    Looking at the guide seems to be free. Haven't put a stamp on the envelopes yet and have got all results back by writing on the front of the envelope animal specimen exempt
    Look at the following from the guide
    https://www.enfergroup.com/bvd-eradication/guide-to-sending-samples-2/

    6. Post the bag containing samples and submission form or note in an envelope to Enfer. ** Please write clearly on the outside of the envelope ” Exempt Animal Specimen ” .


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  • #7
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    i have just sent enfer an email and i will let ye know if they reply:rolleyes:


  • #8
    Justjens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Justjens


    Learnt just the other day that 60c now covers up to 100 grams with the new postage rates, old 55c rate was only 50g, would imagine that's quite a few samples!


  • #9
    Stan 10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 196 ✭✭Stan 10



    POSTING SAMPLES
    Samples should be labelled
    with ‘Exempt animal speci-
    men’ at the rear along with
    the farmer’s herd number
    (pic 1). This does not mean
    that the envelope is exempt
    of postal charges.

    From Farmers Journal 2nd February 2013


  • #10
    dar31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭dar31


    a 55c stamp will cover up to 32 samples, if iremember right.

    i was curious last year an got the local post mistress to weigh a batch that would only need a 55c stamp.

    have sent 26-28 at times with no problems, leave a little spare on the weight just incase


  • #11
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    got an email back from enfer, you definitely have to pay postage, failure to do so will reulst in an post delaying delivery of the sample. All animal exempt specimen means is that they are not to put it through the rollers in the sorting office as this could tear the envelope!


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  • #12
    larthehar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭larthehar


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got an email back from enfer, you definitely have to pay postage, failure to do so will reulst in an post delaying delivery of the sample. All animal exempt specimen means is that they are not to put it through the rollers in the sorting office as this could tear the envelope!

    A word of warning to you all, DO NOT POST WITHOUT PACKING! I have found bvd samples in the postal sorting machine loose... they do get to the destination eventually but there is a risk of them opening etc..pack some bit and it will protect them and still make it for 60c..


  • #13
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    larthehar wrote: »
    A word of warning to you all, DO NOT POST WITHOUT PACKING! I have found bvd samples in the postal sorting machine loose... they do get to the destination eventually but there is a risk of them opening etc..pack some bit and it will protect them and still make it for 60c..

    I thought envelopes marked " exempt animal specimen " were manually sorted ?


  • #14
    Stan 10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 196 ✭✭Stan 10


    jomoloney wrote: »
    I thought envelopes marked " exempt animal specimen " were manually sorted ?

    That's a good point.


  • #15
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Stan 10 wrote: »
    That's a good point.
    how many people actually write that on the envelope, by the time you write the adress, herd identifier number and have the samples sealed its another job, think i have written it once if ever


  • #16
    larthehar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭larthehar


    whelan1 wrote: »
    how many people actually write that on the envelope, by the time you write the adress, herd identifier number and have the samples sealed its another job, think i have written it once if ever

    Very very few addressed to enfer have it anyways.. better safe than sorry with the packing is all I am saying.. costly to have to re test..


  • #17
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    whelan1 wrote: »
    how many people actually write that on the envelope, by the time you write the adress, herd identifier number and have the samples sealed its another job, think i have written it once if ever


    we printed off a number of labels and stick one on back & front,

    you have over 8k posts here , & u complain about writing 6 words on an envelope


  • #18
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    jomoloney wrote: »
    we printed off a number of labels and stick one on back & front,

    you have over 8k posts here , & u complain about writing 6 words on an envelope
    `we dont have the luxury of a label printer, there are 7 lines in the adress, write your herd identifier... interesting to see how many people here actually write it at all


  • #19
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    larthehar wrote: »
    Very very few addressed to enfer have it anyways.. better safe than sorry with the packing is all I am saying.. costly to have to re test..
    what do you mean by packing? is it just in the little sample bag provided with the tags or do they need something stronger?


  • #20
    larthehar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭larthehar


    whelan1 wrote: »
    what do you mean by packing? is it just in the little sample bag provided with the tags or do they need something stronger?

    The sample bags are fine, the issue is with use of normal c5/dl envelopes. Any sort of compression on the envelope and the sample bursts through the sides of it. Even wrapping tightly in news paper to protect better would do..


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