Can anyone give me some postage advice please?

[bodiddly]

I am about to list loads of fabrics for sale on ebay - largely lengths of about 3m so will be fairly sizeable to pack and sell. Can anyone advise me the best way of packing and which royal mail packing rate I should be looking at? Many thanks.

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can you fold them? make them as small as possible and put them in a plastic bag inside a jiffy bag? else in a sealed plastic bag and wrapped in sturdy brown paper. make sure you weigh them wrapped (or at least the heaviest one, then look up on the post office website for the best rate for that weight. you will find that the heavier the passage the less choice you have in rm service.

Thanks thrifty ... Im not sure I would find jiffy bags big enough ... unless I spent a lot of money that is. I can fold them and could go for the bin bag and brown paper approach I guess. I had a quick look on ebay and there seemed to be such a wide difference in how much people were charging I was concerned as to which RM rate I should be going for!

Tissue paper
brown paper
weigh on the kitchen scales
check on the Royal mail postage pricer
sg.royalmail.com/portal/rm/PriceFinder;jsessionid=J501T02LSLI2EFB2IGKUPLQ;jsessionid=J501T02LSLI2EFB2IGKUPLQ?catId=23500532&gear=pricingcalc

try again
sg.royalmail.com/portal/rm/PriceFinder;jsessionid=J501T02LSLI2EFB2IGKUPLQ;jsessionid=J501T02LSLI2EFB2IGKUPLQ?catId=23500532&gear=pricingcalc

I always weigh my items in a jiffy bag and work out the price based on weight on the Royal Mail site, normally packet rate (unless a cd or dvd in which case they're normally large letter)

Id you've not got enough jiffy bags though have you thought about using supermarket bags for life? they're strong and only 10p each

thank you .... will check the royal mail link .. and bags for life.. what a great idea! Do you wrap them in anything else or just the bag?

I've not used them as I have huge amounts of jiffy bags to reuse. I have received goods in bags for life though, not wrapped in anything else first, they were fine. The plastic is thicker than some of the mailing bags you gets sent things in.

meant to add - they were turned inside out first and think the seller added a note to say they were new, things inside were clean so all ok :)

thanks bumpybecky .. very good idea! now just have to weigh them all and work out postage costs. I hate this bit!

GGGRRRRRRRRRRRR! I have spent hours trying to change postage ammounts on items bought from outside the U.k, and for several who want combined postage. E bay will not let me change the postage, infact the box reverts to empty. Can someone please help me. I think I am losing my mind!

OOPs!

just put a note in the item description, you add this using the edit function.