Huge postage increase !

[madox66]

Been to the main post office to sent 5 Xmas cards. The lady told me there was an increase in the postage but I never thought it would be that much for a regular, not registered air mail letter weighing just 16 g : 76 B for UK and 175 B for USA !! Next year I will send online cards.

[scubascuba3]

Being in Thailand is a good excuse to not send Xmas cards

[ThaIrish Sean]

We use moonpig.com 

Book up to a year in advance and forget about it. You can put your pictures into the cards and text to personalise them.

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, ThaIrish Sean said:

We use moonpig.com 

Book up to a year in advance and forget about it. You can put your pictures into the cards and text to personalise them.

Yes, that is what I do, thanks for the reminder to get it done. Can cover the UK and a few pals who have moved to Oz too.

[brewsterbudgen]

Must have happened very recently, as last week I posted 5 regular size Christmas cards to the UK at 24 baht per card  (Airmail), at Nana Post Office in Bangkok.

[sometime]

5 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Must have happened very recently, as last week I posted 5 regular size Christmas cards to the UK at 24 baht per card  (Airmail), at Nana Post Office in Bangkok.

Same here 24 baht last week

[soi3eddie]

Should arrive just in time for Christmas. 2021.

[sanuk711]

13 hours ago, ThaIrish Sean said:

We use moonpig.com 

Book up to a year in advance and forget about it. You can put your pictures into the cards and text to personalise them.

Do they then send them as a card or as an e-mail.???? the site is a little vague

[Guderian]

16 hours ago, madox66 said:

Been to the main post office to sent 5 Xmas cards. The lady told me there was an increase in the postage but I never thought it would be that much for a regular, not registered air mail letter weighing just 16 g : 76 B for UK and 175 B for USA !! Next year I will send online cards.

 

I went to the main Post Office on Sukhumvit, near where Jomtien Second Road joins it, and posted a Christmas card to a cousin in the UK last week. The cost was 39 Baht. Yesterday I was in the TukCom area and had three more cards to send to friends in the UK so I used the small sub-post office opposite TukCom, near the motorbike taxi stand on South Pattaya Road (east side of TukCom). These cards may have been slightly heavier, but there wasn't much in it, yet the guy charged me 112 Baht each for sending them.

 

How does that work, are prices higher in the franchised sub-post offices than they are in the main branches?

[johng]

24 minutes ago, Guderian said:

are prices higher in the franchised sub-post offices than they are in the main branches?

 

Yes that's how they make a bit of profit for themselves, the customer gets the "convenience" of not having to go all the way to the main post office.

[Guderian]

1 hour ago, johng said:

 

Yes that's how they make a bit of profit for themselves, the customer gets the "convenience" of not having to go all the way to the main post office.

 

Still, a roughly 200% markup is a bit steep, the 200 Baht I'd have saved by going back to the PO on Sukhumvit would easily have a paid for my petrol, and a couple of cold beers as well, lol.

[Qualibus]

18 hours ago, madox66 said:

Been to the main post office to sent 5 Xmas cards. The lady told me there was an increase in the postage

Your receipt seems to be a receipt for EMS, regular airmail letters do not get tracking numbers.

[jackdd]

18 hours ago, madox66 said:

but I never thought it would be that much for a regular, not registered air mail letter weighing just 16 g

You sent them as air mail registered, which is why you have a tracking number on your receipt.

The regular fee is probably 36THB, and then 40THB extra for "registered"

[worgeordie]

18 hours ago, madox66 said:

Been to the main post office to sent 5 Xmas cards. The lady told me there was an increase in the postage but I never thought it would be that much for a regular, not registered air mail letter weighing just 16 g : 76 B for UK and 175 B for USA !! Next year I will send online cards.

It was the same for my wife when she posted a Xmas card to UK. you can see

on the receipt a 40 Thb charge( translated as Special tax ?), so 36 Thb for postage

and 40 Thb for tax, did you have to put green customs declarations on yours ?

Regards Worgeordie

[KhaoNiaw]

19 hours ago, madox66 said:

Been to the main post office to sent 5 Xmas cards. The lady told me there was an increase in the postage but I never thought it would be that much for a regular, not registered air mail letter weighing just 16 g : 76 B for UK and 175 B for USA !! Next year I will send online cards.

The receipt shows them as 'small packets' (พัสดุย่อย) and, as others have already said, they have tracking numbers. 

[jacko45k]

3 hours ago, sanuk711 said:

Do they then send them as a card or as an e-mail.???? the site is a little vague

They send cards via Royal Mail in the UK.

[suhoaswhas]

Really guys, why are you talking ? not even one of you can read that the surcharge is only 40 thb for COVID ?!

 

How possible that people keep talking when they know and understand nothing ?

 

 

[suhoaswhas]

3 hours ago, Guderian said:

 

I went to the main Post Office on Sukhumvit, near where Jomtien Second Road joins it, and posted a Christmas card to a cousin in the UK last week. The cost was 39 Baht. Yesterday I was in the TukCom area and had three more cards to send to friends in the UK so I used the small sub-post office opposite TukCom, near the motorbike taxi stand on South Pattaya Road (east side of TukCom). These cards may have been slightly heavier, but there wasn't much in it, yet the guy charged me 112 Baht each for sending them.

 

How does that work, are prices higher in the franchised sub-post offices than they are in the main branches?

 

Franchised what ? they are nothing and not related to any official post office !

funny you

[suhoaswhas]

51 minutes ago, KhaoNiaw said:

The receipt shows them as 'small packets' (พัสดุย่อย) and, as others have already said, they have tracking numbers. 

 

Trackings that do not track...

https://track.thailandpost.co.th/?trackNumber=UA121793935TH

https://track.thailandpost.co.th/?trackNumber=UA121793921TH

 

[sanuk711]

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

They send cards via Royal Mail in the UK.

Thanks Jack45k....I am having a problem getting a picture(photo) on to the space in the card............am I missing something that is obvious..?????????

[KhaoNiaw]

 

4 hours ago, suhoaswhas said:

Really guys, why are you talking ? not even one of you can read that the surcharge is only 40 thb for COVID ?!

 

How possible that people keep talking when they know and understand nothing ?

 

 

It doesn't say anything about COVID. It just says 'special international air admin fee'. Maybe that's COVID but it doesn't say that. 

From the Thailand Post website it looks like the air letter rate is 24 baht with no surcharge, while the small packet rate is 36 baht plus 40 baht surcharge. Probably explains the difference. 

[jacko45k]

14 hours ago, sanuk711 said:

Thanks Jack45k....I am having a problem getting a picture(photo) on to the space in the card............am I missing something that is obvious..?????????

Hard to say, I always used a laptop and achieved it quite easily.

[Katipo]

The increase is mainly due to Covid. What limited space there is available costs a lot more to acquire.

[finewine]

Sent 10 cards to UK yesterday, costing 24 baht each.

[Ireland32]

Antiquated 

[Susco]

On 12/7/2020 at 5:36 PM, madox66 said:

Been to the main post office to sent 5 Xmas cards. The lady told me there was an increase in the postage but I never thought it would be that much for a regular, not registered air mail letter weighing just 16 g : 76 B for UK and 175 B for USA !! Next year I will send online cards.

As I can see a tracking number for each item, they are obviously registered postages, and not regular ones

[Fairynuff]

Sending Christmas cards... oh yeah my mum and dad used to do that

[Bangkok Basha]

On 12/7/2020 at 8:08 PM, ThaIrish Sean said:

We use moonpig.com 

Book up to a year in advance and forget about it. You can put your pictures into the cards and text to personalise them.

Thanks for this information. It will be very useful once I learn how to insert a photo into the card. Working on the signature part now. Many thanks. 

[TKDfella]

I sent one registered letter 13th last month, 8 grm,121+40 ฿. Tracking today, Royal Mail UK says that it hasn't reached UK yet. It'll be quicker to send it by horse & cart next time, Ha!

[hotchilli]

On 12/7/2020 at 5:40 PM, scubascuba3 said:

Being in Thailand is a good excuse to not send Xmas cards

That's what I tell my siblings every year.