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How do you calculate postage costs? The thing I'm selling weighs about 100g ... is there a definitive list of weight/cost for different tariffs? (Failing to find it on the Royal Mail website...) Is it okay to round up for postage-and-packing-and-faff? Or does that put people off?

I don't understand the difference between the different postage options any more either. As far as I can tell they all translate to either "we put it in a bag and get round to sending it when we feel like it" or "you pay through the nose and we leave it on their doorstep in the rain the next day". :-/

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> Is it okay to round up for postage-and-packing-and-faff?

Yes, within reason; fair enough to round up something that's likely to cost, say, 42p to post up to 50p or even a quid. Though there _are_ still one or two clowns out there that think they can get away with charging £6.50 p&p on something like a 256 MB RAM stick (for that price I'd want it hand delivered by Maria Sharapova in a gold-plated Rolls-Royce).
And much of the time some of the postage options don't really matter that much, I've had items going missing when sent via Recorded Delivery or even Special. To be honest, you're as well sending either first-class or regular ParcelForce (with the optional insurance) depending on the weight of your items and depending on just how high-value they are. The one thing to really watch out for is anything containing glass, the Royal Mail rugby team have a horrible habit of using these things for line-out practice or so it seems.