| From: | David Bateman |
| Date: | 30 Aug 2001 at 15:03:09 |
| Subject: | Re: 64mb 72 Pin SIMM EDO for 28.20 (UKP) |
Hello Neil
On 30-Aug-01, you wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2001 2:10 pm, David Bateman wrote:
>
>> yeh, £6+VAT is a bit much for special delivery which only costs them
>> £3.60!!
>
> Except it doesn't only cost them £3.60. that's what they pay the Post
> Office. On top of that there's the cost of the packaging, the cost of
> paying someone to package and address each parcel, plus their time in
> taking it to hte Post office and standing around while the POPerson fills
> out the forms. then there's the time taken up with dealing with
> non-deliveries etc. For all that work they charge less than two quid.
>
they use the special delivery envelopes you can get, then stamps are put on
that.
the sender fills in the form in about 30 secs, i do it myself enough times.
i still think £6+VAT (£7 approx) is a bit much!
Regards
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