UK International Postage Help

[Sairentu]

I recently received two responses from UK. Both requests were sent with IRCs, so I suppose the postage was paid at post office. The postage on both envelopes is £2.7, which is strange, cause the weight of one is less than 40g and another is about 70g. The price calculator on the Royal Mail website tell me that the postage to Europe zone was supposed to be less than £2 (and also different because of different weight of envelopes).
I usually send A4 pictures, so the envelopes were slightly bigger than A4. Could this increase the price of the postage?

The thing is from now on I plan to apply UK stamps on a SAE myself, so I need to know how to calculate it properly.

Hope that someone could help me.

[EmmaSheree]

UK international is a minimum of £1.28.

so if you have 3 second class UK stamps this would cover that amount

[Sairentu]

I did the calculations. That's why I'm wondering why was the same amount of £2.7 was paid by two different people to send me back two letters with different weights if there's much less needed

[EmmaSheree]

I did the calculations. That's why I'm wondering why was the same amount of £2.7 was paid by two different people to send me back two letters with different weights if there's much less needed

It depends on the size of the pic they sent and envelope as sometimes it might say according to online rreaserch it is a Normal letter but really its a large letter because it doesnt fit through the measureing thing at the post office.

[Sairentu]

I did the calculations. That's why I'm wondering why was the same amount of £2.7 was paid by two different people to send me back two letters with different weights if there's much less needed

It depends on the size of the pic they sent and envelope as sometimes it might say according to online rreaserch it is a Normal letter but really its a large letter because it doesnt fit through the measureing thing at the post office.

That brings us to my initial question: How can I know for sure how much postage I should apply
BTW I listed both size of the envelope and weight above

[EmmaSheree]

I did the calculations. That's why I'm wondering why was the same amount of £2.7 was paid by two different people to send me back two letters with different weights if there's much less needed

It depends on the size of the pic they sent and envelope as sometimes it might say according to online rreaserch it is a Normal letter but really its a large letter because it doesnt fit through the measureing thing at the post office.

That brings us to my initial question: How can I know for sure how much postage I should apply
BTW I listed both size of the envelope and weight above

You can never be sure as in my local PO i get charged £2.40 for international but in a different post office i got charged £1.20

It could be coz its bigger than A4 and wouldnt fit in the measure thing at the PO so nothing to do with weight.

[Sairentu]

You can never be sure as in my local PO i get charged £2.40 for international but in a different post office i got charged £1.20

It could be coz its bigger than A4 and wouldnt fit in the measure thing at the PO so nothing to do with weight.

Yeah, they may try and count it as a higher priced item or something.
There's not a thing about size restrictions on a website though: http://www.royalmail.com/price-finder.

[kimmylee]

No EmmaSheree, because only UK domestic post is classed into size & weight in that way. Airmail is done by weight and items are classed as letter or Small Packets.
What happened here is that the PO classed both items as Small Packets, that costs 2.70 to Europe (up to 100g).
Were the envelopes board backed? This may have excluded it from "letters" in their eyes.
In future if you put enough postage on for the correct weight at "letters" you should be ok since the celeb won't have to go to the PO but can pop it in the mailbox. Things do get checked along the line but most folks here get their UK to abroad items fine with just "letters" postage.

[Sairentu]

No EmmaSheree, because only UK domestic post is classed into size & weight in that way. Airmail is done by weight and items are classed as letter or Small Packets.
What happened here is that the PO classed both items as Small Packets, that costs 2.70 to Europe (up to 100g).
Were the envelopes board backed? This may have excluded it from "letters" in their eyes.
In future if you put enough postage on for the correct weight at "letters" you should be ok since the celeb won't have to go to the PO but can pop it in the mailbox. Things do get checked along the line but most folks here get their UK to abroad items fine with just "letters" postage.

Thank you very much!