Dear spiders
My grateful thanks to all who have responded to me about 'handling charges'
by UK Post Offices. I quote my reply to Jean Peach who used to work for the
Post Office, which will save me replying to you all individually. I just hope
my little granddaughter loves her little jacket as
Jane Patridge wrote:
If anyone will be sending lace for The Lace Guild's competition next
year (to be in for June), it may be worth noting that our postal charges
normally go up in April.
When I send lace abroad for Exhibitions I always use an International Courier
company which is very
Thought this was relevant to both lists in case some of you are on one but
not the other.
Just been to the post office to post a packet to Australia. A notice has
just been put up, a gizmo placed on the counter for measuring letters and
the scales now only show weight. From 18th August the
Hi Jean and everyone
We (in Canada) have had this weight/size wrinkle for quite a while
now. It certainly encourages creative packaging. I received herbal
tea that would have been a compact 'fat' package but to avoid high
postage it was spread out flat in a ziplock bag - the difference in
We had an email about this at work today. The letter size covers the
envelopes that will contain an A4 sheet folded into two or three (and
the American versions which are a little longer and a little narrower),
the large letter size will take A4 sheets, and 25mm in thickness is an
inch,
