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    Who do you use for sending goods to customers who buy online from your shop or that order long distance?

    royal mail is a killer!!

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    Unfortunately because of where we live Royal Mail usually works out cheapest though admittedly my parcels are a lot smaller than yours! Have you tried Parcel2Go.com ? I've found they generally have pretty good rates.

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    Royal Mail, I would not go anywhere else as they have the organisation to deliver.

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    Kodiak - customers not interested to pay the postage at cost and i'm not taking a 6 quid hit on an item that only has 8 quid profit in first place!

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    Quote Originally Posted by KEEP_ON_TRUCKIN View Post
    Kodiak - customers not interested to pay the postage at cost and i'm not taking a 6 quid hit on an item that only has 8 quid profit in first place!
    You asked "Who do you use for sending goods to customers" So I informed you Royal Mail. Not my fault that your customers won't pay you for the Postage. I have never had any complaints for any Postage Costs I have asked for.

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    Crikey Kodiak - no need to get your back up - i'm just explaining why I am looking for another courier service- I don't think it's your fault my customers don't want to pay excessive postal charges.

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    may i ask why you are saying that the postal charges are excessive? i know i can send something weighing up to 15kg (i think or it may be 20kg) for a maximum of £15 by royal mail standard parcels, or are you sending out stuff heavier than that?
    www.tugmistress.co.uk

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    Hi Tugs yes at times sending & receiving heavier than that. It's not necessarily to do with weight of package but more so value of it.

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    ah ok, maybe not a solution for you but when we send extremely large or heavy stuff we actually just deliver it ourselves and charge for our fuel for the return journey. sorry i can't be of more help.
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