[78-L] Help Requested For Foreign Shipping Rates

[Alan Bunting]

Very interesting!

UK Royal Mail clearly state that no package weighing more than 2kg may be sent to Canada by either Air OR Surface mail (see bottom of these pages):

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?mediaId=53800712&catId=400036

and

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?mediaId=400393&catId=400037

Why this exclusion should apply only to Canada is a complete mystery to me but it must be something to do with those pesky Canadians as Royal Mail are never slow in extracting as much money as they can from us.

Alan Bunting

--- On Wed, 5/11/08, Malcolm - Venerable Music <malcolm at venerablemusic.com> wrote:

> From: Malcolm - Venerable Music <malcolm at venerablemusic.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Help Requested For Foreign Shipping Rates
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 5 November, 2008, 11:26 PM
> Thanks David - Are the parcels you send to the UK ever over
> 2.5kg? If so, 
> how do you ship them?
> I noticed that the same problem occurred when trying to
> calculate shipping 
> from the UK to Canada. Anything around 2.5kg or over would
> only come up with 
> surface prices to Canada (but Air was there for the rest of
> the world)?
> 
>