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Permalink Reply by Pam Antink on March 5, 2014 at 6:06am

Will let Anne know Elaine, so she can update the prices on the Postage Information discussion.

Thank you for alerting everyone, worth getting parcels wrapped and posted before the deadline!

Permalink Reply by Anne Powell on March 5, 2014 at 6:34am

Thanks Elaine.  I will update these on the International Postage discussion as well.

Permalink Reply by Kathy Platts on March 5, 2014 at 7:50pm

This is great news - the prices have reduced! Thanks so much for sharing this information.t

Permalink Reply by marion m on September 14, 2014 at 12:23am

I have just posted a batch of Squares, and worked out that the postage was just over 50 pence per square.This is quite high, and I am just grateful that kind people donate balls of yarn. However, having just looked at the lates batch of photographs, I feel very humbled by all the faces of the little children. Is there any other route to get the squares to Sotuh Africa other than Royal Mail ?

Permalink Reply by Cath Riley on September 14, 2014 at 11:47am

I suppose it depends on the thickness of the squares, but I crochet double knitting wool, send 70 squares at a time and send by surface mail and that costs £9.45. I have to say that I put them in a plastic bag, sit on it to get the air out and seal it so that it meets the size requirements. Hope this is some help.

Permalink Reply by mary on September 14, 2014 at 9:30pm

Marion  some people use couriers for large numbers of squares like Knit a LIfe charity but  I think the costs are large. The cheapest method is the surface mail one. I normally send 35 squares some slip ins and a few teddies for £10 surface mail. 

Permalink Reply by Elaine Jones on September 16, 2014 at 3:42am

You do seem to have paid rather a lot Marion.  Did you send your squares by 'Small Packets' International Economy (formerly surface mail)?  The packaging itself is also quite important - boxes weigh a lot but plastic post bags are much lighter.  I've never done it, but I do wonder if the rubble sacks available in the £ shops might make good postal bags.  They're cheap and must be fairly substantial.  Mary mentioned Knit for Life which is a UK registered charity run by Pam Johnson and me.  We send large consignments of knitting via a removal company but we receive so much knitting from local people that we're running at capacity at the moment and, as much as we would like to, we can't accept knitting from all over the country. We do lots of fundraising to meet the shipping costs, which are considerable.  When we were sending squares out by Royal Mail, Pam and I calculated that it cost around 20p per square if we sent parcels weighing 2 kg.