Royal Mail Revised Postage Costs

[zedx19]

Anyone seen the new postage charges that Royal Mail have issued this past week? I run a tiny little eBay business selling wall stickers and the cost of posting a 500 x 700mm tube has gone up to £5.20. If I pass this cost onto my customers, I won't sell anything! Yet the cost of the item is lower then the postage charges, so its not as if I can swallow the costs. I've looked at my competition at no-one else seems to be charging more for postage, which gets my wondering whether I'm doing something wrong!

So, does anyone have any suggestions to alternative ways to post a 500mm x 700mm sheet of paper, without folding?? At present, this goes into a postage tube 635mm long. According to the Royal Mail size, maximum size can be 450mm for the cheaper postage, anything over and now its £5.20!?

[zedx19]

May have answered my own question lol looking at £2.50 + VAT for Myhermes, more reasonable.

[SonicShadow]

MyHermes are cheap, but my girlfriend and myself have had nothing but trouble with them. I can't think of one time where a MyHermes delivery has arrived on time for us. When contacting them, they always seemed to have trouble locating the delivery, and therefore cant tell us when to expect it. I've never had to sign for one of their deliveries either, which I've always found a bit odd.

[M3Maverick]

My gf runs a small ebay business and had this same issue.

Check out argocargo.co.uk or parcel2go - they are far cheaper than Royal Mail plus will collect from your house and all deliveries are tracked/insured.

[zedx19]

I see no alternative though! £5.20 with Royal Mail prices me out the market, I'll be charging £4.99 for the product and £5.50 for the P+P lol