ROYAL MAIL ARE NIGHTMARES

[bms]

BMS - hi martin, my ricoh is much better than the B40W - sold the B40W & made a profit on what i bought it for - result!!

You'll have to come to work for us

[John G]

minimise the total cost of packaging and posting?

Cardboard box @ under 20p + bubble wrap at 1p, scrap card cut down from the boxes that the mugs come in originally - bobs ya uncle - 21p worth of packaging and few if any damaged mugs.

[Ian M]

minimise the total cost of packaging and posting?

Cardboard box @ under 20p + bubble wrap at 1p, scrap card cut down from the boxes that the mugs come in originally - bobs ya uncle - 21p worth of packaging and few if any damaged mugs.

Spoken like a Yorkshireman..............'How much'

Ian

[bms]

bubble wrap at 1p

If bubble wrap is that cheap, why bother with the box

[John G]

I buy my bubble wrap in at £7 per 100m, so 1m works out at 7p - i get 5 mug size strips out of each 1m so per mug its about 1.4p. I wouldn't bother with the box but the postie would keep popping the bubbles if i didn't.

[JSR]

I use the polystyrene boxes that BMS sells and haven't had one breakage yet (I don't use extra bubble wrap).

I did try the smashproof boxes from subli-supplies but they worked out (i) more expensive and, (ii) the added weight just increased postage costs.

If I send multiple mugs, I use the 6-way polystyrene boxes which works out even cheaper on a per-mug basis.

I do only send 10oz mugs, though. If I did 11oz mugs with the large handles, I'd use something else - or stomach the extra cost for the smashproof boxes.

[gorgall]

Don't put "fragile" on a parcel, they see this as a challenge. Try writing "please throw underarm".

[Kaz]

I agree with gorgall, it's the "fragile" sticker that's doing it, the posties like to play footie with fragile stickered parcels, sadly

And RM do cover ceramics, you need to use special delivery though

[daniboy0812]

Cheers everyone - 'throwing underarm like a corrupt pakistani cricketer!! OOOWWWZATTT!!! Smash!!

Cheers Kaz - special delivery eh - well thats my profit gone!! Oh well, its been nice knowing you all - hanging up my sublimated slippers now!!

Now there's an idea! Have i just stumbled across a niche?

I will omit the fragile stickers - although have increased size of my boxes & they are cheaper & more bubblewrap

200 4 x 4 x 4 boxes £34
200 5 x 5 x 5 boxes £24

EH????

cheers guys