Here comes a whole new clean sweep.
Out with the packety parcel rate altogether, & In with weirdly-sized small, medium & large parcels.
Price bands rejigged into much larger increments.
Link to prices: http://www.royalmail.com/sites/defau..._April2013.pdf
Small parcel dimensions are as follows: 45 x 35 x 8cm. Essentially, a fair-sized, but pretty flat packet, at £2.60 for up to 1 kg.
Someone can correct me if I'm reading it wrong* but I've given it a pretty good going over & I can see no way to send a small but boxy parcel of up to 1kg (say a shoebox) for anything less than £5.20 new Medium Parcel 2nd class rate.This is compared to current 2nd class Packet rate of £2.20 for up to 750g, no size restriction.
Effectively, this means you can now send a hefty-sized book for the same rate as a well-packed ping-pong ball.
Ebayers, list & post your small chunky parcels before 2nd April.
*edit - Someone has indeed corrected mesmall but boxy parcel 16 x 16 x 16 max falls into Small Parcels.


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This is compared to current 2nd class Packet rate of £2.20 for up to 750g, no size restriction.
small but boxy parcel 16 x 16 x 16 max falls into Small Parcels.
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