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This will affect your trading, as from April 2nd!

http://www.royalmailgroup.com/royal-mail-announces-proposals-change-its-parcels-range

http://www.royalmail.com/parcels-made-easy#standard

http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Royal_Mail_Our_Prices.pdf

See this link for examples of package sizes and new charges:
http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/RoyalMail_UKWallChart_April2013.pdf

I have just noticed this today. Normally small parcels are £2.20 second class standard its now £2.90. Over a 6 month period i have paid the royal mail over 3k in postage

Yeah I know - it's not so much the price increases as the split between 'small' and 'medium' packets. Now if I were to ebay a Dreadnought that wasn't in bits (like the DV one say) it would cost about £4-5 instead of the flat rate of £2.70 1st class I used to pay recently. So basically they're charging more for volume instead of weight. They've also decreased the basic coverage to £20. It sucks and the way they try to sell the service as an "improvement" bugs me, when really we're being chraged more for the same or less service - kinda like a lot of companies these days

This is the wrong section for this.

Dakka Discussions would be better,

 Rotgut wrote:
This is the wrong section for this.

Dakka Discussions would be better,

Sorry, but I thought it was relevant, because most trading, requires delivering by Royal Mail in the U.K. usually.

Of course, there are alternative delivery agents, who may well see an increase in their business.

Please move, if deemed necessary