Further blondeness

[j4]

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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[duncanneko.livejournal.com]

Postage costs are on the Royal Mail website here (http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=400023&mediaId=9300094), with breakdowns by weight etc. For E-bay etc, I'd recommend picking the highest you think it's likely to cost and adding a smidgen extra to be on the safe side - generally people will be happy to spent a few quid on postage. Depends on value/fragility of what you're sending, really. Also, don't forget to include weight of packaging.

100g 1st class is 42p, by the way