IIRC the books Jean bought were from USA but posted in Canada?
I don't know if that bumped the price up or not.
UK internal post has recently changed to size and weight instead of
just weight, but international packages are still just priced according
to weight.
For most countries the maximum weight is 2Kg for packets and 5Kg for
printed papers. For Canada there is a strict 2Kg limit regardless of
what the parcel contain. I found that out the hard way when I had to
bring a parcel home and re-pack it into two smaller ones.
Malvery, it could be that your padded envelope was small enough for
internal mail but not for international.
On that subject it might be timely to advise UK folk to be aware of the
changes when posting Christmas cards. An "ordinary" 1st or 2nd class
stamp will only suffice for a C5 envelope (the envelope to fit A5
paper) or smaller, AND less than 5mm thick. If you put two or three
cards into one envelope, or you use a padded envelope it will be
thicker and will need a "large letter" stamp.
Brenda
Hi Jean and others - you can check out the rate that should have been
charged for sending the parcel. You would need to weigh the books and
estimate the weight of the packing but you would definitely get an
idea of how much you should have been charged. You also have to take
into account the size as it is also based on size as well as weight.
http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/offerings/lettermail/int/rates-e.asp
Interestingly, I made a baby blanket for my new great niece and took
it to the post office to mail. Needed to also buy a large bubble pack
envelope to pack it into which I did. Addressed the envelope, stuck
down the flap, put on the return address and handed it to the clerk to
weigh. After various computations of weight and size he told me that
it was too big to send!! Duh - it is in one of the Canada Post own
brand envelope, so if you can't send things that big why do you sell
envelopes that size? Anyway, he folded over one end of the envelope
and put tape right across it. It cost me $31.00, so $48 for 4 small
books sounds a bit high (actually sounds a lot high).
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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