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Title: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: Timmer on October 26, 2018, 13:39:11 Received by email this morning:
Quote This is to tell you about our new ticket postal charges that will come into effect from 29 October 2018. • First class post will increase to £1. • Next day delivery will rise from £6 to £7.50. Covering our costs These charges are being introduced to cover our postal costs only. We will not be using these to profit from our customers. Many other websites already do this and some do charge more. We still won't charge you a separate booking fee. Mobile tickets for free You may find it more convenient to use mobile tickets that are available as a free alternative on many of our routes – this means you no longer need to queue at a station to buy or collect your ticket. Download the free GWR mobile app to your mobile and enjoy paperless travel. Exemption examples If you're travelling from a station where it isn't possible to collect your ticket free of charge, via a ticket office, ticket machine or an e-Ticket, then the postal charge will not apply. Yours The GWR team To be fair to GWR they are one of the few rail ticket retailers who haven’t up to now charged for postage. I will still continue to buy from them for the nectar points...for what they are worth! Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: Sixty3Closure on October 26, 2018, 16:38:11 Virgin East Coast always had free postage although I haven't ordered from the new company yet to see if that carried over (and the Nectar points).
Trainline did always annoy me with the postage costs and also the bit at the end trying to get me to sign up for 'discounts' for a monthly charge. Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: Bmblbzzz on October 26, 2018, 17:28:08 It's fair enough really. Postage isn't actually a free service, after all.
Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: old original on October 26, 2018, 18:26:49 It's fair enough really. Postage isn't actually a free service, after all. ...and plenty of free alternatives. Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: LiskeardRich on October 26, 2018, 18:39:03 I have no issue with this on the basis there are several free methods. Whats a 1st class stamp these days 65p?
Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: bobm on October 26, 2018, 18:44:58 67p
Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: TonyK on October 26, 2018, 19:45:00 To be fair to GWR they are one of the few rail ticket retailers who haven’t up to now charged for postage. I will still continue to buy from them for the nectar points...for what they are worth! #MeToo, and when their website is down, I switch to Transpennine Express for the day. Always using the credit card that gives me 3% cashback until I hit the limit for the month, then switch to another with a lower cashback, always collect from the TVM. Those Nectar points can add up over a year - every little helps, as they say. Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: JayMac on October 26, 2018, 21:06:14 Those Nectar points can add up over a year - every little helps, as they say. Nectar don't say that though. That's Tesco's tag line. :P Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: TonyK on October 26, 2018, 21:31:29 Nectar don't say that though. That's Tesco's tag line. :P Well I never! That could explain the funny looks I get in Sainsbury. Some of them, anyway. Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: Fourbee on October 27, 2018, 15:34:40 Adding a journey from a station without ToD facilities will no doubt override it; Lympstone Commando to Lympstone Village child off-peak day single @ 70p, say. This may have come up before when XC started charging postage on certain journeys.
I usually collect mine from a TVM, but when I have ordered by post they come very quickly with a return address in Crawley. Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: JayMac on October 27, 2018, 16:09:01 Adding a journey from a station without ToD facilities will no doubt override it; Lympstone Commando to Lympstone Village child off-peak day single @ 70p, say. This may have come up before when XC started charging postage on certain journeys. I usually collect mine from a TVM, but when I have ordered by post they come very quickly with a return address in Crawley. Devonport to Dockyard Child Single is even cheaper. 65p! Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: bobm on October 27, 2018, 16:10:09 ..and I remember when a child single from Reading to Reading West was 3p.....
Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: Kernow Otter on October 29, 2018, 18:48:52 Majority of our journeys are from Lostwithiel. Happy days
Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: TonyK on October 29, 2018, 20:52:19 Adding a journey from a station without ToD facilities will no doubt override it; Lympstone Commando to Lympstone Village child off-peak day single @ 70p, say. This may have come up before when XC started charging postage on certain journeys. I usually collect mine from a TVM, but when I have ordered by post they come very quickly with a return address in Crawley. Creepy. ..and I remember when a child single from Reading to Reading West was 3p..... I used to get up i't morning half an hour before I went to bed, eat 'andful o' cold gravel, lick th'road clean wi' th'tongue... Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: Western Pathfinder on October 29, 2018, 21:37:39 You were lucky !.
Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: JayMac on October 29, 2018, 21:47:40 But you try and tell the young people today that, and they won't believe you.
Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: Pb_devon on October 30, 2018, 07:49:39 Anyway......
Bought a ticket from Plymouth on GWR website yesterday afternoon and free 1st class postage was offered (and used). A bit slow to update their website? Surely not. 😉 Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: Timmer on October 30, 2018, 07:58:27 I booked tickets on Friday afternoon for travel mid December which arrived yesterday only to find out yesterday on RTT the times have changed albeit minor changes by a few minutes The tickets I bought were Advance tickets so departure time on the tickets now doesn't match the new departure time. I'm not expecting any hassle from the train manager as I suspect they are used to things not being right these days. I do wish Network Rail would sort themselves out when it comes to issuing timetables for weekends.
Title: Re: GWR to start charging for posting rail tickets Post by: TonyK on November 04, 2018, 20:24:28 I do wish Network Rail would sort themselves out when it comes to issuing timetables for weekends. Why only weekends? ;D This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |