Postage costs in UK

[spirantho]

I use Parcel2Go.com for all my courier postings in my business and I've had very very few problems with them. I had trouble with Yodel so I don't use them any more.

For inland:
Next day I use TNT. Three day I use MyHermes.

For Europe:
I use UPS or TNT

For America:
I use UPS

For Australia:
I use FedEx.

I have very few problems these days; as long as you stick to known couriers you're usually fine. And for reference, to Europe from the UK would be about £30 by UPS I believe, and it's reliable.

[spirantho]

How big is your package? I've sent some very large boxes for less than £30...
Are you sure you put the measurements in cm and not inches?

I've just shipped an Amiga 1200 including PSU, mouse, manuals to the Czech Republic. It cost me £25 + £5 VAT via UPS for 3(ish) day service. If you're getting quoted £300 then you're doing something badly wrong!

[spirantho]

What's the dimensions and weight of the package, and which country are you sending it to?

[spirantho]

Quickly plugging those figures into Parcel2Go shows TNT will be £54.40, but that's from a business address. FedEx will do it for £60.

As for the C64 - It would be a bit silly to have a repair service where the customer needed to know what was wrong. The usual entire diagnosis I get when sent a C64 for repair "The screen's black"... therefore I have ways to find out what's actually wrong - some of which are even more technical than "put finger on RAM chip and see if it burns your finger off", which is always the place to start when diagnosing a C64.
So no, person sends me C64 which is kaput, and I send them same C64 which now works.

[spirantho]

@stefcep2

A lot of eBay sellers in the US insist on using priority mail, that's why they're so expensive. Some of them are ridiculous (buy one IC, and it costs $160 postage to the UK, that sort of thing).
USPS postage isn't actually that steep for small items, but it can get quite pricey quite quickly as the size goes up. Thank goodness for couriers.