Slide film mail costs

[tangerine_sedge]

I can't find any previous postings on this subject (but I'm sure someone will post a link anytime now)...

I'm still a luddite slide film user, and since the recent change to the Royal Mail parcel costs, I'm unsure what postage I should pay to send a slide film for processing.

In the good old days, I'd just slap a 1st class stamp on the fuji pre-paid envelope and magically get my slides returned, but not anymore! So my questions are:

(1) What's the 1st class price to send a single slide film 1st class to Fuji in the UK? £1.09 (1st class <100g, >25mm thick)?

(2) What's the 1st class price to send a single slide film to Kodak in Switzerland (thanks Kodak!)?

(3) I presume it's cheaper to bundle a whole load of films together and place in a single envelope?

I should of course go to my nearest Post Office to confirm this, but unfortunately it was closed (apparently in the interests of giving me a better service?!?)

I'm really annoyed with the Royal Mail price increase, as it looks like it's going to add £1 to every film being developed. If anything is going to make me turn to the dark side (digital) - this is it!

I've recently taken to just sticking 2 x 1st class stamps on the envelopes and hoping for the best (seems to work so far!), but I just know this is going to go wrong at some point....

[Andy M]

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[looop]

For uk just one of the larger 1st class stamps should do.

[tangerine_sedge]

looop said:

For uk just one of the larger 1st class stamps should do.

That's the premise I was working on, but still.....

I think I'll have to bundle them up. Definitely in future I'll only be using Fuji. Why should I have to send my Kodak films to Switzerland (which apparently gets forwarded for processing in the US)!

[Famous Graham]

tangerine_sedge said:

Why should I have to send my Kodak films to Switzerland (which apparently gets forwarded for processing in the US)!

You don't

Unless it's Kodachrome I guess.

Or do you hold with sending film to the specific manufacturer for developing?

[poah]

should all go according to wieght and size. I send my 120 stuff free post to peak or to onlinephotocentre via recorded delivery which costs me £2 as its bulky enough to be considered a package. if in doubt take it to a postoffice.

[tangerine_sedge]

Famous Graham said:

tangerine_sedge said:

Why should I have to send my Kodak films to Switzerland (which apparently gets forwarded for processing in the US)!

You don't

Unless it's Kodachrome I guess.

Or do you hold with sending film to the specific manufacturer for developing?

yep - prepaid Kodachrome - which apparently is environmentally very bad

I guess from now on, I'll be Fuji only...

[Famous Graham]

Might be worth finding out the US address - you're right, the Swiss lab's shut down.