ROYAL MOAN Royal Mail introduces ‘sneaky’ new pick-up charge leaving customers FUMING

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/34772497 ... rs-fuming/

ROYAL Mail customers have blasted the company for charging a 30p fee to collect parcels from homes.

The company said the previously free collection service had been a promotional period which has now ended after several years.

In 2020, the cost was 72p per parcel, but the charge was dropped in March 2021 to encourage people to use the service.

The reintroduced levy - which came in on May 1 - has caused a frustrated backlash from customers, particularly small business owners and eBay sellers who rely on doorstep collections.

The charge is applied when you arrange home collections on royalmail.com, and is added on top of the cost of postage, which can be bought either from Royal Mail directly or a marketplace site like eBay.co.uk.

But senders can avoid the fee by dropping parcels off at Post Offices, postboxes or post lockers for free.




This was so "sneaky" I doubt any of us knew RM were now, finally, charging for the this service?

[ted_e_bear]

Just checked and it's real news as far as purchasing postage is concerned, wonder if it's also applicable to all the Amazon etc returns we get to collect, I hope so but doubt it.

Oh yes and those coffee pod recycling bags that people leave out in the rain so you can't stick the label on and then leak coffee in the van when they're not properly sealed.