| From: | tim |
| Date: | 17 Aug 2000 at 12:22:17 |
| Subject: | Re: Turbo Print 7.1 |
Hi Bill
> > The base cost of the goods is completely
> > irrelevant (within certain limits) to the cost of carriage.
>
> Yeah a vheap but heavy item will cost more to send than an ecpensive lioght
> one. It is the weight that is the factor and a floppy is not exactly going
> to cost even a first class stamp let alone £3.
The single largest component of the cost of P&P is the time spent packaging
the item up for postage and taking it to the post office. Assuming you're
paying minimum wage for the person doing this, then jiffy bag + stamp is
around 50p, the time for me is about 20 minutes = £1.20 plus employers NI,
plus 2 miles in the car at FPCS rates 90p, making £2.74. Add VAT, and the
total comes to £3.22. At £3 I would make a loss on P&P, even for something
like a single floppy disk which can be sent with a single first class stamp.
>
> I have bought items from Germany that cost less to send to me. That is not
> right surely.
Postage within Europe is only a few pence more than in the UK. Even air-mail
postage to Australia is only a little over double that for within the UK
for light items such as a floppy disk. The postage charge is a minor part
of the P&P cost.
Some retailers, such as Ramjam, include the P&P costs within the standard
price - since we generally only sell by mail order we can do that without
penalising direct customers. Where we do sell direct (Kickstart Show etc.)
we give a discount which is effectively the P&P charge.
Tim
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