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Royal Mail shipping extension

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abolabo:
i set up your parameters on my localhost and see delivery options for  royal mail.
What's shipping address do you use for testing?

jesus_automatic:
I use a regular UK mainland address. My store is UK based. My company is UK registered and my customers are in the uk. . But royal mail isnt shown as an option. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the extension. Still no good. Royal Mail is the obvious and cheapest delivery option, so I am keen to get it working.
I have also tried Citylink and this doesnt show either. And UPS does?

jesus_automatic:
I appear to have solved it. I changed the master weight class from gram to kilogram in the settings.

So now it displays as an option but the costs it is showing are very small compared with the real Royal Mail costs. How can I edit this, and make allowance for packaging?

abolabo:
please check weight of some product on it's edit page

jesus_automatic:
Yes the weight is correct. But the shipping cost specified is absurd.

For example. One item 140gram 25x15x10 cm. It gives a price of £1.75. Royal Mail website gives it as £5.20. It also gives the price as a letter, when it is too big to be accepted as a letter. It also gives the option to send it airmail to a UK address for £2.38 which is obviously not a service available, but only £1.57 to send to Spain.

In other words the costs given have no connection whatsoever with the prices Royal Mail charge. The Royal Mail charge by size and volume as well as by weight. This could be where the problem lies. If I change the size of the product, it doesn't affect the price. And it would explain how it will allow a large box to count as a letter, as long as it is within the weight limit.

But if the Royal Mail extension doesn't reflect the cost of the service what's the point of it? Is there an extension where I can manually enter the delivery costs in the manner of cost A for first item + cost B for each successive item?

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