Posting from England to Ireland

Susieq62

It is £3.40 to anywhere in Europe plus Australia and New Zealand

Yes. I found that little nugget of information out yesterday. 2 cards to friends in Europe and 1 to a GD in Australia. £10.20 thanks very much!

Whoops!

Good job you started this thread and I am now officially embarrassed - as I was going to stick 2 stamps on card to a longstanding friend there and it wouldnt have been enough!

Oh boy....bet I've been doing that all these years and she might have been getting charged excess postage unbeknown to me. Oh heck....

Well I know now - so I'll stick two extra stamps on there...

I received a Royal Mail post card recently to inform me there was an item at the sorting office with insufficient postage. It was a birthday card from my friend and it cost me £3.50 to retrieve it. It had a first class stamp but not the current ones with the attached bar code. Presumably she must have had an old stamp and used it.

Shocking.

Heavens...I live in Southern Ireland, I had no clue it was that amount, thankfully most now send WhatsApp messages, I moved here 22 years ago from England and have relatives and friends still in the UK,

The postage to Ireland and Europe is the same as Worldwide
It’s all £3.30 all the pleasure has gone
Seapebble I don’t think they will accept a few stamps to add up they expect to see the correct one on there It will get sent back or destroyed
Also although you say ‘ it’s only a price of a coffee’ if you ve got three close relatives overseas it’s the price of a present !!!

Well they ve shot themselves in the foot as I think by next year there will be hardly any cards sent

Yes, it is mad. I posted 5 cards abroad, all at £3,40, which comes to £17. I shall have to think about this next year.

First-class stamp inland is £1.70. Posted a card FIVE days before a birthday. Got there seven days later. Could have walked it there quicker.

I take my letters and cards to be posted to the Irish Republic to the post office; the staff there put a franked stamp on. I would hesitate to attach regular stamps, in case the recipient has to pay extra, or god forbid, it ends up in customs and the recipient has to pay even more.

I know this because I post to my family regularly. On a recent trip to visit family, I took all my Christmas cards with me to be posted there!