How many first class stamps does it take...

Sledge · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 15:45

...to post a vidgame from A to B within the UK? I'm sending a game I'm done with over to a mate and know some of you chaps do likewise. I don't fancy wasting a lunchtime queueing at the post-office just to find out the correct postage. (I got sun to soak up.)

Malabelm · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 15:49

First class for a game in a large-ish jiffy bag is usually about 90p, so 3 stamps should be more than enough.

TheVision · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 15:53

Won't the royal mail website tell you based on weight? You can even print the postage off! Never done it myself mind...

Sledge · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 16:02

Malabar Front wrote:

3 stamps should be more than enough

Coolio, cheers!

TheVision wrote:

Won't the royal mail website tell you based on weight?

Aye but I'd just be guessing.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

No kitchen scales?

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25881

A copy of The Orange Box in a padded envelope is 143g on my jewellery scales.

Large letter size up to 250g in weight is 90p. Three 2nd class stamps at 30p each will be exactly right if you have any around, or it will still take three of the 39p 1st class stamps if you don't have any 2nd class.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 18:47

MimiMeemster: the voice of accuracy.

Sledge · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 19:06

Except it's not The Orange Box, rendering the figures INVALID

Seriously though, thanks Mimi -- scientific method FTW!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25881

Sledge wrote:

Except it's not The Orange Box, rendering the figures INVALID

Seriously though, thanks Mimi -- scientific method FTW!

I went for the Orange Box because it has a fairly large booklet. Game discs (as long as it is a single disc game, and as you were asking for a specfic item I'd assume you'd say it was a double disc) and cases all weigh the same, so the variation is in the weight of the booklet. Choosing the one with the largest booklet that came to mind to weight should have given a fair idea, but as it weighed in at 143g and had more than 100g before reaching the next weight/price limit meant that you could safely assume that no booklet was going to be so large that it would weigh 107g more than the booklet of The Orange Box.

Therefore I stand by my result.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 19:11

Mimi's turning into Gaywood! I'm surprised we didn't get a graph with that post.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Mimi: SCIENCE HI5!

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Dimrill wrote:

Mimi's turning into Gaywood.

Mental processes:

"Ooh, Zardoz should totally do one of those morphy gif things."
"No, wait...."
:spew:

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