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hairygit:
Okay guys, I can understand the gripes about postage, but we have to bear in mind the utter rip off that is Royal Snail pricing policy, they keep moving the goalposts on parcel sizes and weights. Packing materials cost money too, even an A4 jiffy bag doesn't give much change from a quid to buy. I sympathise with Dave Silver on some of these issues, he doesn't deliberately set out to rip people off, far from it, and without him and his love for older Hondas we'd be in shit street for many parts, he is very fussy about the quality of parts he has specially made.   Maybe if you are that bothered about postage prices, go and collect them, then it's free, or maybe if a member lives nearby he/she would be willing to collect them and post them by a cheaper courier company, or arrange for a courier company such as hermes to collect them for you. Also, with Royal Snail, anything valued at over 28 quid for insurance purposes has to go by "special delivery" which starts at £7.50! so even 2 sets of points and 2 condensors would cost that to send, plus packing materials. Okay, rant over:))

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LesterPiglet:
You seemed to have missed the point that a package is £2.50 postage if it's aftermarket then it jumps to £11.75 to post the exact same package if the parts are genuine. This has nothing to do with Royal Mail.
It's a bad way to do business.

mickwinf:
I agree with hairygit, the post office have got very expensive, I only use them for very small items, and Hermes for larger stuff. I find its better to order a few items at once from silvers, items send via a carrier only costs £5-6 if I remember correctly, good value for bigger orders. Lester I think its the insurance that costs more for items over a certain value, Post office always asks value when you take in a parcel, so it could be that making the cost rise

Trigger:
I agree with Lester on this. Order a aftermarket ignition switch at £20, and postage is £2,50. Then add a OEM tappet and it jumps to £11.75.
 And as for insurance from the PO, it is a joke. I sent a kick start off for a re-chrome. The PO lost it and when i made a claim they sent 6 first class stamp as compensation. They recon that it is a second hand part and only has scrap value.

matthewmosse:
Good point hairygit, I can quite see that side of it, but I'd say there are cheaper services than royal mail, especially when it comes to a halfway big or weighty item, I sold a cb250 brake disk and speedo drive the other day, 99p and £8 postage, thought that would cover it, poped into post office £14 to send it - the post office lady did assure me it was insured for something like up to £50 or something, but since it ony got a 99p bid that wasn't an issue, as it was I sent it for about £5 via Hermes, who even collect at that price. I note the Hermes prices went up after RM's but still cheaper. One thing Dave Silver has in his favour in a big way, no one can rival his range of parts or indeed the quality of a lot of it.

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