FESTIVE FEE Royal Mail to make a major change to fees TOMORROW as shoppers face Christmas surcharge

[TrueBlueTerrier]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/24635552 ... christmas/

ROYAL Mail is making a major change to fees tomorrow ahead of shoppers facing a Christmas surcharge.

Business account customers will be asked to pay a new 2p green surcharge.

The green surcharge will be introduced on or after Monday, November 6.

While the surcharge won't be charged directly to consumers, there are concerns that they will end up footing the bill anyway if businesses look to up their prices to cover the extra cost.

The surcharge will apply against:

Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed by 9am, 1pm and end of the day Sunday
Royal Mail Tracked 24 and Royal Mail Tracked 48
Royal Mail 24 and Royal Mail 48
Special Delivery Guaranteed Returns
Royal Mail Tracked Returns

Business account customers will also be asked to pay an additional peak surcharge of 5p for letters and 10p for parcels later in the month.

This will come into force on November 20 and end on January 7 - the peak time for Christmas deliveries.

Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Online retailers are having to contend with rising prices on all sides, so they’re highly unlikely to take these extra charges on the chin.

"It’s going to be passed onto shoppers, who can expect to see the cost of Christmas keep on rising."

It comes after Royal Mail announced that first class stamps will go up from £1.10 to £1.25 on October 2.

Andrew Hagger, personal finance expert at Moneycomms, said the possibility of additional costs is the "last thing hard pressed consumers need".

The 2p green surcharge is applied by the Royal Mail to its business customers fund its decarbonisation measures.


Products including Royal Mail Tracked 24 and Royal Mail Tracked 48 are subject to this charge.

Plus the 5p peak surcharge is applied to Royal Mail 24 and Royal Mail 48 large letters, Royal Mail Tracked 24 and Royal Mail Tracked 48 letterboxable products sent by business account holders.

The following products will be hit with a 10p peak surcharge:

Royal Mail 24
Royal Mail 48 Parcels
Royal Mail Tracked 24
Royal Mail Tracked 48 Parcels
Royal Mail Tracked Returns
Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed by 9am, 1pm and end of the day Sunday
Special Delivery Guaranteed Returns
A Royal Mail spokesperson said: "Christmas is our busiest time of year and we invest in thousands of additional staff, more vehicles and additional parcel sorting sites to manage around double the normal volumes of parcels.

"Other parcel carriers already apply a similar surcharge during the Christmas period."

[noggin1969]

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[oypostie]

So can we look forward to some new vans with the green surcharge, Currently we have nothing newer than 8 years old

[enskied]

Take the same packet out on a road trip twice isn't very carbon neutral, then take it out again when the customer says they may be home.

Nothing green in this company.

[Mr Rush]

Take the same packet out on a road trip twice isn't very carbon neutral, then take it out again when the customer says they may be home.

Multiplied by the number of vans driving into one estate to do lapsing. That'll be ecology at the forefront of the office budget. The company's words and its actions are consistently at odds.

[enskied]

Take the same packet out on a road trip twice isn't very carbon neutral, then take it out again when the customer says they may be home.

Multiplied by the number of vans driving into one estate to do lapsing. That'll be ecology at the forefront of the office budget. The company's words and its actions are consistently at odds.

Please don't mention the lapsing, I just don't get it. One person used to take 4 hours or so to do it. Now, 30 people take 20 minutes each to deliver it , the drive to begin their duties and bring over 40 minutes of work back each day. Not mentioning what they leave in unattempted.

[Mick100]

So they have made our rounds longer taking the big parcels off us but if we have another 10 parcels for the same address which aren't classed as big parcels we cannot put them all together meaning we have to drive to the same address as the person doing oversized parcels