Postal costs for heavy parcels lighten as size matters more |
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Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:00
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You should start paying a little more attention to the way you pack your parcels from now on, if you want to save money on postage costs. Why? well Royal Mail is considering imposing higher prices on larger sized parcels/letters instead of the traditional concept of charging extra on packages and letters, which weigh more. The new postage rules are to come into force from April 2006.
According to Royal Mail, such a system would create a ‘fair’ pricing structure since collection and sorting costs were ascertained not by the weight but by the size and form of letters and parcels. However, this proposal still awaits Postcomm, the industry regulator’s approval.
| The Royal Mail explained its proposal further saying that price alterations would undoubtedly cease any sort of "unfair" events, wherein customers posting ‘compact’ ‘heavy’ pieces were charged more heavily than those who sent ‘large’ but ‘light’ items. A spokeswoman from Royal Mail revealed that small sized items cost less to the company and it didn’t matter whether they were heavy or light. Therefore, renewed prices would reflect actual mailing costs and help Royal Mail to be just to its customers as far as pricing was concerned. It further endorsed the new regime saying that the system had been operating successfully in Australia, Japan and the US.
Meanwhile, the effect of this price change was hardly expected to be seen in at least 80% of residential mail, as told by Royal Mail. The remaining 20% could however, be affected with half of the mails becoming more expensive, and the other half costing much less.
Royal Mail said, “We have had to go through the costs with the regulator. As far as our profits are concerned, it is a revenue-neutral move." Postcomm is supposed to approve of the proposal in the coming few weeks.
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