Posting a 1.250 KG Family Tree Album Parcel to Australia

Other half sent a plate (as in china) to Oz via surface mail a year or s= o back. Took around 3 months to get there but it did and in one peice.

Apart from waiting for the next time you or a kind friend or relative flies out there, Royal Mail is probably going to offer you the cheapest options from anonymous small packet/printed papers upwards. I suggest you take a look at royalmail.com and play around with the weights and delivery methods and see what looks best to you. And if you find you are on the margins of a weight boundary you can play around a bit to keep within specific limits. From your point of view, you might save money by combining some or all of them but the gesture you are making might wear a little thin if Aunt Jessie has to stump up a number of dollars to get part of the consignment over to Aunt Arabella on the other side of the continent.

Nick

courier them. I will NOT be cheap.

Id guess at £15-£25 each

IIRC from looking just now, surfacemail has 2 kg limit. Airmail might be

does "printed matter" have to be in a plasticy see though "bag"/"envelope"? IOW offering no protection, and general treated as publications & chucked about etc?

Jim K

No

Nick

Printed matter can go by a lower rate , but it goes by slowest non priority route.

A decent Post Office is always a great help, my local main P.O. is `king useless, make rules up because not sure of what they are doing. Local sub P.O. are experts at either cheapest or fastest route depending on what customer needs and will pay for. Royal Mails site is good for getting ballpark numbers on cost,

Parcel2go put 1.25kg at just under 30 quid to Australia but 10kg at just under 60 quid if can get them distributed internally from Aus.

Cheers Adam

Thank you all for the help.

Airmail seems the best solution if it is around £20.00 or so. I will tell the clerk it is just photos in albums and hope for the best.

A lot of effort has gone into processing and grouping the albums.

If surface was a quarter of the Air mail price it would have been worth thinking about. Mick.IOW.

Oh FFS! You've found Usenet. Is it really that fecking difficult to find the Royal Mail website?

MBQ

Which bit of "the maximum weight is 2kg, apart from books and pamphlets where the max weight is 5kg" suggests a "might be"?

After that it's Parcel Farce or courier. I regularly split parcels that would over 2Kg as it can work out cheaper to send two separate airmail parcels.

MBQ

It is *much* easier to post the same question here AND soc.genealogy.britain.

Do you not know what "IIRC" means? Unlike some I don't state things as fact if I'm unsure.

You said you had just looked!

MBQ

At prices for 1.25kg. The weight limits where only passing information and ICBA to go and look again to check that had remembered correctly.

Options other than Royal Mail?

The parcel cost £14.66 by Air Mail. Mick.

Is posting to two groups separately the same as cross posting then?

I asked in both groups because I thought there would be different views on method of sending?

Mick.

I think it is not the same - though some groups reject all cross-posts so it is not always an option.

Cross-posting (limited, of course) allows all viewers to see each others' responses and hence avoid saying the same thing again, repeating 'research', whatever.