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Been searching the net for a way to economically send a package from the UK to Canada today, for some bits in the swap shop forums and the prices seem over the top. Even couriers, who are starting to be cheaper then Royal Mail it's not a price I think people will be willing to pay for shipping. It's certainly a price I would wince at paying out, was wondering who the British people use to send stuff overseas with.

I do a lot of international shipments through work, we use Royal Mail for normal orders, and now DHL for high value, very important deliveries.

Prior to DHL we used TNT, and before them Fedex.

What is it your shipping, what's the value, and how much are the prices you're getting?

I recently paid £15ish to ship some Catachan to Canada with Royal Mail recorded. You could try Collect+, I hear they are cheap but don't know if they ship internationally.

I often ship to Belgium and that goes with Royal mail too.

I like:
http://www.gwizzcouriers.co.uk/

They sub out to UPS, so offer a similar (generally very good) service. Home collection / printing of labels, all very convenient.

I think it cost about £80 to send the Ork Gargant tabletop set to the US. Two HUGE boxes. Of course, you need to get your own boxes / packing sorted first, and have a means of weighing the packages.

I'm getting £15 to £20, it does include signature on delivery, but as it would be roughly £25 the person is paying, it seems it would just bump the cost up to probably their retail prices over there.
With a courier now being cheaper to send stuff within the UK half the time and royal Mails price rises made sense it would be true to Canada

It's a small padded envelope, around 20cmx16cm and weighing around the 100g mark.

Royal Mail airmail would be cheapest, by far.

The post office. The starting price for other services are roughly the maximum price I have paid via the Royal Mail.

Also if you are sending stuff to the US and Canada, sending it surface mail 2nd class is remarkably quicker than you would think - and cheap. That is assuming that the stuff is worth less than £36 or whatever the price is for uninsured items.

For larger parcels - FedEx and DHL via parcel2go.
It's roughly half price ordering through them so way cheaper than parcel force.

If it's small enough to go as a letter or packet then Royal Mail.