I'm sure a lot of you will have heard about the pending price increase of up to 40% on Royal mail postage prices, this comes in the effect at the end of April, at the moment I add 55p to postage price to cover packing costs, I will look at lowering this when the price changes happen to try and absorb some of this ridiculous price hike, the table below is a current price vs new price
I would say an average parcel I send is round the 500g mark so it's only 22p more than what you would pay now and you can go up to 1kg for the same price so it's not all bad, the shop calculates the postage based on weight and it's quite accurate, if you need to order anything that could be quite heavy now is the time to do it.
Weight | Current Price | New Price |
100g | £1.58 | £2.70 |
250g | £1.96 | £2.70 |
500g | £2.48 | £2.70 |
750g | £3.05 | £2.70 |
1001-1250g | £3.71 | £4.30 |
1251-1500g | £4.90 | £6.50 |
1501-1750g | £5.66 | £7.40 |
1751-2000g | £6.42 | £8.30 |
2001-4000g | £7.18 | £10.30 |
I would say an average parcel I send is round the 500g mark so it's only 22p more than what you would pay now and you can go up to 1kg for the same price so it's not all bad, the shop calculates the postage based on weight and it's quite accurate, if you need to order anything that could be quite heavy now is the time to do it.