In a cynical attempt to cash in on the online market, The Royal Mail has decided to tinker with the pricing and formats of its parcels service with changes becoming effective on Tuesday, 2nd April.
Letter post will remain unaffected but two new parcel rates, medium and large parcels, are being introduced and the airmail price stages are changing from 100g to 250g. For small volume businesses such as ourselves it will unfortunately mean some changes to our P & P charges. A lot of our smaller ceramic items for instance, which we posted for £2.30, will now attract a £5+ charge. On the plus side for our overseas customers, those items presently just under the 250g, 500g, 750g thresholds will actually be cheaper to send. Details of the price and format changes can be found on the Royal Mail site here. Download a PDF here
Due to the bank holidays our last posting day under the old prices will be Saturday. We are working hard to introduce the new changes but it will take time as we have little option other than to manually alter many of our listings so we would appreciate it if you didn't pay immediately but allowed us to invoice you with the new rates if applicable. If you purchase any of our fixed priced listings after Saturday please be aware there may well be a surcharge on some items.
Many apologies for these changes and for any inconvenience but they are totally out of our control. We are though looking at alternative solutions.
Curio Gifts.
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