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Offline chocolate chick

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« Reply #30 on: August 22, 2006, 03:54:42 pm »
I know this is a silly question but who else deliveries letters other than royal mail?

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« Reply #31 on: August 22, 2006, 04:06:28 pm »

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I know this is a silly question but who else deliveries letters other than royal mail?


Private courier companies - although they charge quite a lot. They are better value when sdending parcels.


Actually, if you are sending a single item like a card, 44p is not a great deal of money if it gets delivered on time. It's only when you have to send 100 Christmas cards that it gets expensive. And my daughter's car insurance took 7 DAYS to arrive even though it was sent first class. That's terrible.

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« Reply #32 on: August 22, 2006, 04:07:03 pm »
You can send things through Parcel Force or similar, but in the past only if it cost over £1 to send.
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« Reply #33 on: August 22, 2006, 07:14:42 pm »
City Link, TNT and Business Post charge around £5.35 for each parcel which is really good if you are sending lots of big items that royal mail would charge £5 and over for and the private couriers obtain signatures for each delivery. It doesn't work out good for small packages though.
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