Posting Brake disks ?

[J4CKO]

Just went to the PO, lumped a full set of packaged brake disks in, they said it would be £9 but as they are only a post office local they couldnt take it and I would need to go to a main PO, took it to that one as could park, took it to a main one and had a nice walk with 29 kilos of disks, woman there said they could take it but was £30 ! look on Ebay ads and it say £8.90 for postage ?

How much should it be ?

And do Post Office staff always seem to enjoy being able to tell you that you cant do something ?

[Rosscow]

http://www.postoffice.co.uk/price-finder

No way will it only cost £8.90

You'd be better off using Interparcel:

http://www.interparcel.com/

[andy-xr]

It's a bit like buying a train ticket in advance rather than on the day, Ebay sellers who have business accounts with Parcelfarce will get a cheaper price from volume ship and also because they're signed up to a business price list. It might also be that the £8.90 is calculated as a decent shipping rate (£30 might put people off) but they've hidden the other £22 in the product cost.

I'll never use the Post Office to do anything, I find them useless and overly smug given what they actually do. If I ship anything now it's parcel2go and Hermes local drop off, usually half the price of what over the counter GPO would charge

[StottyEvo]

The Royal Mail is very expensive for heavy items, I send anything over 1kg via courier as it is cheaper.

For me to post those discs tracked with next day guaranteed would cost £3.95, but I do get flat rate

[J4CKO]

Awesome, Interparcel did it for £13.16 !

Much more like it, cheers.