John Watkins Wrote:Got my magazine as usual with no problem and no surcharge. At work we use lots of plastic A4 envelopes for mail to clients for a good number of years and have never had one issue with a surcharge with them on material ground. All of our mail is franked at work though, but this should not make a difference.

Take it up with the Post Office as the material the envelope is made out of should make no different at all as their rules are as follows from 5/10/2015:

Item Old process New process
Letters/Large Letters – no postage paid £1 handling fee plus outstanding postage £2 flat fee
Letters/Large Letters - insufficient postage paid £1 handling fee plus outstanding postage £1.50 flat fee
Small Parcel - underpaid/no postage paid £1 handling fee plus outstanding postage £3 flat fee
Medium Parcel - underpaid/no postage paid £1 handling fee plus outstanding postage £1.50 plus incremental postage rounded to the nearest 10 pence

I hope the above "posts" OK as a table. Looks like they are stating there was insufficient postage paid.

Gerald Lobley Wrote:Similarly in darkest Aberdeenshire a slip though the door stating I need to pay 1.50 to have the delivery. Paid online and should arrive on Wednesday.
Went into local Post Office and asked them to weigh couple of previous issues
Oct 2015 (36 pages) 76g
Aug 2015 (40 pages) 84 g

BUT not just weight she said, also thickness. The August magazine barely went through the sample slot and if you add any internal packing plus the envelope it would have been tight fit. So if current tome is a 'bumper' version it may be classified as large rather than regular. Cost for 2nd class regular would be 54p while for the same as large would be 74p. So what did you pay?

Could check again at the Post Office when it arrives (and unopened) if you want.

Hope this helps

Gerald