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I need to post something tomorrow and an identical item was sent to me with '1st Class Large' written on the stamp....now, as I don't have any of these, but have loads of 'ordinary' 1st class stamps, would I be able to slap on a couple of these & bung it in the letterbox OR do I really really really have to make a special trip to the postoffice to get it stamped, does anyone know?

And PS it's something I'm sending to the Bukkit Lady and I know she will NOT be like to be called Large :o - 1st Class, certainly, but...Large? ;) ;D

2 regular first class stamps will cover it.

There is a full list of stamp prices here.
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?mediaId=52300716&catId=600025

Many thanks BaccyMan :-*

I use either 2, 2nd or 2, 1st depending what it is. Hope this helps. ;D

No, no, no to just plonking on extra 1st class stamps!  Check your envelope measurements because 'large' stamps aren't designed to cover increased postage price but also the width/thickness.  I think a first class stamp will cover a width of so many mms (something like 15mm, I can't remember) and a large stamp covers something like 25mm.  I'm not all together sure about the length.  It's all to do with the new post box measurer they now use at the post office counters these days (bloody rip off is what it is) but if you post it with 2x 1st class stamps on and it's wider than a 1st class allows - the person at the other end will be charged the excess.

Oh thats ok.............she can afford it lol.................. ::) ::)

Only joking, having it weighed in.

Im not sending you any more bukkits, ya hear 8) ::)

Birthday cards with a badge or something like that on it class as a "large" letter, very often they will say so on the back of the card.

The problem is that the PO charges £1 excess plus the postage, you have to drive to the sorting office to pay and pick it up, for the sake of the person at the other end it is in everyone's best interests to get it right.

I got a leaflet from the PO setting out the sizes and new rules when they came in, and use that as a guideline.  Then I weigh the envelope and then check on their website what the postage should be.  99% of the time it is easy to judge what type of envelope/package it is.

king easy money :o
one was 1.27 as king's hadn't paid enough postage  :(

I think it's a devilishly cunning plot to make us use the post office! :)

I checked a card that had a raised motive on it and it would,t quite go through
altho size was right! bit of a pain for those who can,t find a PO
marg

 Today i asked for anyone who needs to know.

You can buy stamps to cover large cards from the PO, the same as your christmas stamps , i think she said they start at 45p.
i hope this helps.  rosebud.

Well its plastered in stamps, probably well over the actual cost. I wonder if the receiver gets the cost difference?

Nah s'pose not :-\

Here you are, me luvvlies, I've taken the information from the Royal Mail website and made a chart with all the prices/weights and Christmas posting dates for you :)

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Now that is very helpful ;D

Thanks Sam ;)

teeheee...received today 8)....but I've gotta pay excess on the sheer weight of the stamps, I reckon ;)

;D

 ;D ;D ;D ;D :P 8)

I hate the new postage rates, unnecessarily complicated in my eyes.  Small letter? Large letter? Parcel?  Who knows - best you get to your nearest post office (now 5 miles away cos your local one has been closed down) and queue for 25 mins.

I get my revenge by steaming off unfranked stamps from mail that I receive, and reusing them.
;D

^^^ Hahaha, me too.  Also, with the junk mail that comes through with prepaid envelopes, I make my own sticky labels, put them over the printed address and use the envelopes for my own post  ;D

Sam that really made me giggle, must try it :)