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Postage increase for items up to 2kg

Royal Mail have increased their postage rates for small items and unfortunately we've had to follow suit.

We've done our best to keep prices down.  We have just one rate for items up to (and including) 2kg, that are sent to an address within the UK.

So how much is it?
£4.75 for UK delivery of items up to and including 2kg.  

That's a modest 13% increase from our previous £4.20 flat rate.  We've done this to absorb the different price changes that Royal Mail have applied.  For example, they have:

• increased their Recorded Delivery fee by 23% from 77p to 95p
• increased the under 750g fees to a flat rate that in some cases is 70% higher than under the old tariff

So our modest price increase doesn't relect the full increase we are dealing with.

What about items over 2kg?
There's no change to our postage rates for items over 2kg.

When is this price increase being applied?
We'll be setting this price change after close of business on Tuesday 15th May 2012.  (We have managed to delay this for a couple of weeks).

Want to know more?
There's an analysis on the BBC site of how the Royal Mail rate increase is affecting people.  (Wouldn't it be nice to see some news of price decreases now and again).