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Delivery Charge Disgrace

Yeah I feel your pain. I've been looking for a connector for an aquatec pump . Around £2 for the part and around £6 for delivery. Absolute rip off for something that weighs practically nothing.

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It's still gotta be delivered tho. The carrier still needs to make a profit. £5 or £6 is a bargain to have an item delivered from one place to another. I guess u can collect it yourself if you don't wanna pay it. Just saying :eek:

 
That is why UK firms cannot compete with cheap goods from China offering very low postage. Price just for a TDS is £3.35 compared to two years ago it was £1.30.

From China it only costs them around £0.60 and we have to subsidise it as the UN still class it as a developing country.

What you will find with the mirror there is a square box in the Post Office and if it does not fit in there then will be a fiver no matter what the weight is.

 
We all run businesses so we should understand how it works more than anyone. I can add 50quid to a bill depending on how I feel that particular day. That business has probably taken the decision to have a minimum charge as they don't want to spend all day paying packers to put 1 grommet in to a jiffy bag, add a shipping label, and dispatch it out just for a few pence profit. Minimum charges like that also encourage people to group up their purchases and buy more each time. It's just business, and I would do exactly the same if I ran a mail order company.

 
We all run businesses so we should understand how it works more than anyone. I can add 50quid to a bill depending on how I feel that particular day. That business has probably taken the decision to have a minimum charge as they don't want to spend all day paying packers to put 1 grommet in to a jiffy bag, add a shipping label, and dispatch it out just for a few pence profit. Minimum charges like that also encourage people to group up their purchases and buy more each time. It's just business, and I would do exactly the same if I ran a mail order company.
Couldn't agree more mate. A fiver is a bargain in my opinion.

 
I know a firm i have done cleaning work for who supply tools for diy and hobbyists etc who have to pay 2 guys to pick and pack orders from 11am until 5pm when the courier and royal mail turn up to collect

That is after they have spent 2 and a half hours receiving deliverys and logging them on the system then putting it all into stock

The delivery charges pay their wages

That is why there is a charge

 
there is a lot of lazy sodds who cant be bothered to post stuff cheaply.it catches up with them in the end,sales plummet but often too late and theyre gone bust -serves them right

iv not ever come across it with window cleaning supply shops however

 
I never understand why people moan about the cost of postage of parcels. Same as people who moan about the cost of a first class stamp. 60p is it? Take it yourself and see how far u get for 60p.

 
Royal mail is cheap i think for what they do

My dad worked there for years and i did a bit of delivering part time when needed over xmas etc

The letter or package you post gets collected from post box

Gets unloaded at hub or sorting office then off to hub

Gets sorted

Gets put on another van

Goes to at least 1 other hub depending on where in the country it is going

Then to local sorting office if it is not part of the hub

Then sorted again

Then sorted by the delivery postman

Then carried around for the morning until it's delivered

How many vehicles involved including fuel etc

How many staff

All for 60p or even a fiver for a packet

How can you moan at that as everyone involved needs to be paid

 
£5 Post Office 48 hour delivery charge

around £6 for delivery

delivered via Royal Mail for less than £2
Yeah, postage costs are a total disgrace, these companies should be ashamed of themselves, how dare they charge! not like it costs them anything for the packaging materials, or for the staff member to package the item, or for someone to take it to the post office (or is some cases have it collected) Not like the courier company has to pay for diesel and truck costs to collect the item, or the cost of the staff to man the sorting hub, nor for the big rigs and drivers that then move them around to the relevant depot to you, forget the van costs and drivers wages coming out to deliver the item to you in the comfort of your own home or office and damn them all to hell if they dare to imagine they should be allowed to make a profit on running a business!!

 
I think we sometimes get spoiled by the big companies offering free postage and then feel hard done by when we're charged by the smaller companies.

Kind of related, does anyone else have Amazon Prime? That is literally the best £79 I pay a year. Guaranteed next day delivery on millions of items on Amazon, even on Sunday's, plus all the tv shows/movies on your devices or Amazon Fire TV stick.

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You have to also consider that if you buy an item locally the price you pay will include a shipping/delivery charge.

B&Q want £22.78 for a 20mm x 450mm sds plus drill bit.

The same drill bit (not the same make) is £5.54 from UK drills. (I've always bought stuff from UK drills and its always been good quality.) Even with a delivery charge they are still half the price of B&Q. If I need it urgently then I still have to drive 10 miles there and 10 miles back to buy it. (Tax man allows us to calculate business mileage in a private car at 33p per mile. That's alone is your delivery charge.)

Going to B&Q to buy the item is going to take at least and hour of my time. What's my time worth? I might also be enticed to detour slightly on my way home and spent £1.79 on a large strawberry milkshake from McDonalds.

All in all, buying that bit from B&Q is rather costly.

 
Yeah, postage costs are a total disgrace, these companies should be ashamed of themselves, how dare they charge! not like it costs them anything for the packaging materials, or for the staff member to package the item, or for someone to take it to the post office (or is some cases have it collected) Not like the courier company has to pay for diesel and truck costs to collect the item, or the cost of the staff to man the sorting hub, nor for the big rigs and drivers that then move them around to the relevant depot to you, forget the van costs and drivers wages coming out to deliver the item to you in the comfort of your own home or office and damn them all to hell if they dare to imagine they should be allowed to make a profit on running a business!!
Its also easy to take the work of these people for granted. It struck me last week. We order something from Gardiners in St Austell and its in Middlesbrough the next morning. When this happens every time we start to expect it. It becomes the new norm.

Then one day the items didn't arrive due to a issue weather related and I got stressed. I really had to have a good talk to myself about my bad attitude. Those drivers and hub staff need our gratitude tbh.

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Got a broken door mirror glass on the Ciroen it's £8.60 on the internet and £5 Post Office 48 hour delivery charge fuming.
Not a bad price £13.60 inc postage & packing probably a good bit cheaper than main dealer prices or around the same as a after market glass from your local motor factors and you would have to go and collect it for that i used to have a breakers yard and have dispatched thousands of parcels and small packages over the years every bit of it costs and the seller of this item knows this hence the charge printing,paper,ink,docs enclosed wallets,complements slips,return address label,bubble wrap,void fill boxes,pallets,packing tape, fragile labels,mailing sacks,jiffy bags,labor time and thats before it goes out the door then there are the couriers fees on top of that any profit made by the seller off of postage on this item would amount to pence

 
We all run businesses so we should understand how it works more than anyone. I can add 50quid to a bill depending on how I feel that particular day. That business has probably taken the decision to have a minimum charge as they don't want to spend all day paying packers to put 1 grommet in to a jiffy bag, add a shipping label, and dispatch it out just for a few pence profit. Minimum charges like that also encourage people to group up their purchases and buy more each time. It's just business, and I would do exactly the same if I ran a mail order company.
So what your saying is then it's a sc

 
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