It is SO easy to jump to conclusions. But those conclusions, in this instance, are wrong.

Royal Mail made half yearly profits of £240 million. This is a fairly meagre profit for a company with 160,000 employees. UK parcel revenues also dipped by 1% (explains why they are trying to pump interest in the business...). So no, they do not rip you off with their prices -- they are just trying to compete in a HIGHLY competitive market.

By comparison, BT (88,500 employees), made nearly £900 million of profits in just THREE months. It employs less people, yet makes significantly more than Royal Mail.

So yes, before jumping to conclusions, why not apply some critical thinking?! It'll serve you well.

Cheers OP :smiley:


Hope the force on Parcels isn't as bad as this :disappointed:

Lord forbid a company make a profit...

Walk there?

Good spot OP

Cheers OP :smiley:


Hope the force on Parcels isn't as bad as this :disappointed:

Not valid for international shipping

Is saying code UK09EU5 is invalid


*edit*
You need to select globalpriority

This is awesome! Though it may be stopped if posted on here...

great post. used. thanks :smiley:

Prepare for the Ask section of this site to be flooded with people asking for uni day codes.

Who ever needs a unidays code if you Google unidays you can join with them by confirming student status :smile:

Is it a one off use or permanent?

Is it just a coincidence that today is the 9th day of the 5th Month? Maybe the code for tomorrow will be UK10EU5?

OR, get a referral for P4D.co.uk, and get £10 instant credit...which you can then apply to your next Parcelforce order with them (or use Collect+ TWICE for free :smiley: !)

Shows they normally rip you off with their prices.

so anyone can use that code when ordering or have to give them the unidays account details as well?

Lord forbid a company make a profit...

Nice deal thanks

I wonder how long this code will now work for? I give it two days, what's the point in posting it?

paulincovjust now#20
backupguy
Is it just a coincidence that today is the 9th day of the 5th Month? Maybe the code for tomorrow will be UK10EU5?
Yes I believe that to be correct.

My Friend works at Parcelforce and he used the code UK02EU5 on the 4th of may so maybe the codes change but not by much, so a little tweaking and this could go on and on?

Spotify is a completely different business model. When Parcelforce discover everyone is using this and they're losing money, it will get removed, guaranteed.

I'm sure they wouldn't offer it if they lost money

They are quite expensive generally, so I'm guessing this still makes them a profit.

£20 with code or £12 via parcelmonkey :neutral_face:

Nice!

12 people on a forum isn't everyone.

Yes, you are right. Spotify is a business that (to the best of my knowledge) has NEVER made a profit. :wink:

Parcelforce know what they are doing.

Comparing privatisations of public owned assets 30 years apart maybe is not the best way of pointing out your point. Also BT held alot more physical assets and monopoly longer than RM ever will to capitalise on.

Seaniboy. I was responding to the other people's comments about how RM 'always rip you off'.
That clearly cannot be the case given the meagre profits generated in relation to the number of people employed.
My comment regarding BT was to show how RM really isn't scalping us when compared to the other monoliths out there.

What a way to get a promotion voided and removed from unidays. The deal is exclusively for students approaching the end of their semester and looking to relocate or move their belonging back home as end of year accommodation arrangements change. In a matter of days once parcelforce are aware of the fact that the code is on here for general use nobody will be able to benefit from it :disappointed:

I need to send a parcel to Germany for as little as possible. This is coming in about £14 after the discount. Anyone aware of a reeeeeeally cheap way to send stuff?

Utterly unhelpful.

Love this thread, it's so.....

With a smidge of....

And the inevitable....

Well the Post Office don't try that hard. I took a large envelope to the post office today and they wanted about £3.40 - for an envelope! I can send a 1kg parcel via courier for £2.60. No competition.

That looks like a treadmill n all!

Parcelforce still have a parcel stuck at customs for a week and no update :disappointed:

Too busy bro!

Well, not wishing to willy wave about parcel costs....BUT, a 2KG parcel via the post office costs £2.80 (2nd class). Convenient and quick.

As for your envelope story, I don't see how it could have cost that much - unless of course you are signing up for the fools tax that is First Class? Up to 750g, 2nd Class is £2.09 (or £2.46 first class)

Unidays as a mature student is pretty good, saved me over 200 quid in the last month alone.

Sure

at first glance prices dont look competitive even with discount compared to, say, hermes ?

e.g. £10.10 for 2kg parcel, drop off at depot, express48 - with discount this is £5.56

Hermes 2kg normal price, no discount, is £3.78 (& you can get a 10% discount via studentbeans IIRC)

Only competitive price is drop off & collect from depot e.g. £2.64 with discount for above example but most peple
will be posting ebay parcels & buyers wont want to collect from depot

Price look more competitive for heavier items though - havent done the sums

Well maybe our local post office are ripping people off. The price charged was £2.85 for an envelope weighing 0.35 kg, 2nd class.

Sounds like they charged you for a 2nd class small parcel, not a large letter. Was it over 2.5cm thick or 35cm long?

Brilliant thanks

I have no idea, I don't often measure envelopes. But my point as earlier, I could have sent a 1kg parcel through a courier, cheaper.
So they charge £2.85 me for a large envelope, or "small parcel" weighing 0.35kg. And somehow a 2 kg parcel is 5p cheaper according to the reply above.
Not really the way to entice people to use the post office.

Haaawt!

Have you seen how expensive they are? Still too expensive for me even with the discount. Hermes all the way.

Thanks OP

Call them. They probably want their customs and duty charge plus admin fee before they release it.

My parcel is 25x25x10 cm and weighs approx 850g.

How do you get the referral credit? I searched Google (other search providers are available) but nothing came up.

I've PM'd you :smiley:

Thank you. Much appreciated. <3

Every time I read or hear the word "students" my face changes to a snarl ! :laughing:

can anyone use this code or only students ?

heat

I got that but it still was not a fair comparison on many counts :wink:


RM are scalping us, rates have gone up as have the new private managements wages.

Scalping?! They have to provide a universal service that no other provider even get close to providing. (You know, the service that takes post out to the highlands and islands of this nation). They also charge less than any competing provider for what is effectively a 2 day delivery on a 2KG package. Their Special Delivery service is second to none - both for reliability, and for what is covered via their £500 of insurance. & in my experience, Parcelforce are fast and reliable...

I guess we have different measures when we assess 'scalping' :wink:

The service is alot more poorer, my postie or my old mans arrive 'whenever' during the day, for 35 years it was 7-8am, then 10.30 for a few years, now its 10.30-3.30pm, changes time and postie almost daily...delivering on the 2nd day at 3.30pm onwards is 3 days not 2. Old man also has a mud path start between him and neighbours in the last few years as most the cheeky beggars walk across the lawn...I did not even do that as a underpaid paperboy. I'm sorry but the service up north is shocking now.

UniDays needs a .ac.uk email address right?, or .....

There's a way to get around a LOT of such prerequisite .ac.uk email address formalities too? (from what I've heard from HUKD a few times last year, etc?).

Does such method/methods still exist again?, and/or if so, how would I go about fulfilling the .ac.uk workaround bit as well too? (if possible?).

Thanx. :-)

Parcel Force are great. 2 days to the Highlands with Parcel Force 24. Whereas Hermes takes 7-8 days - and that's when their courier is "in the area" - otherwise he just marks it as "addressee not present", even though he hasn't been anywhere near!

Sounds Good.

Unfortunately it went let me sign up with Ecareers being my place of study.

Excellent thanks!

Still too expensive even with the 45% discount!

I've been using this code (or something similar) for about 3 months and have always achieved to get 45% discount.
I don't have a UniDays email, codes work regardless.

Most codes can be found online.

2nd class small parcels up to 2kg went up from £2.80 to £2.85 last month, I think that's where the confusion lies between you and the other person.

What have you been sending? Even with the 45% discount, this is still more expensive than the services I use elsewhere (Hermes/Inpost via parcel2go/Royal Mail small parcels, depending on weight).

unless you dont realise its no longer a service its a business and if people keep slagging it off for what it no longer does it soon will say fine we dont have to provide free postage for blind society and british forces and all the other things they do and just run it like a business like apple remember when they were first privatised and someone wanted to charge you per 10g per parcel untill it was scrapped someone higher said no we still need to stay like we were dont forget now they are a business they have to pay 20% more in tax than they did before

parcel pete is the one.

Q: How many parcelforce employees does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Six: One to leave you in the dark, another five to not give a ****

Welcome to commercialism... I use RM for letters on a rare occasion - usually prepaid or high priority, besides I buy loads and its not my fault RM cant pitch against its competitors for big business deliveries who send me my goods - RM is running a business like a government dept and relying on stamps and people in a digital age, not where it should - big business. Fear not if it fails we will just take it over again and sell it below value again....welcome to commercialism. I'm just off to pay my taxed income into the RBS and Lloyds to transfer to other external higher % saving accounts, I will be sure to wave to the posties though :wink:

Absolutely no way. I wouldn't touch PF even if I was paid to use the service. Hermes and Yodel have been more reliable in my experience, UKMail being the worst.

well the posties did warn us this would happen after privatisation but everyone thought they would make money from the shares like gas and bt didnt expect it to be sold off to the banks so they didnt get peoples support

AMAZING!! just sold something on ebay and this just made it a dream to send :smiley:

Thanks just saved £7 with this code rather than parceltogo

You could have saved even more via P4D.co.uk (and a £10 referral credit :wink: )

Great, thank you..

I mean you dont need to listen to those on the ground in any industry whenever a Tory government is in place you bet your life they will sell anything off, Euro Tunnel anyone?...NHS? History tells us.....BT...Energy....Britosh Steel.


The thing is when they then pay low wages - tax credits and Housing/Council Benefit and the cost of administration of all them it is cost effective to pass public ownership of the above to a co-op not a undervalued sale to private corporation.

Example:
A single person - line rental at £18.99 on minimum wage with no tax credit...where the inclusion ? for basic communication calls or more to get online. All the while Openreach makes profit as a BT division.



Public services should be converted to co-op's with CEO's with proven track experience in that field, not outsourced and not sold off.


Labour has never even thought of legislation to protect any of the above being privatised over co-op'ing.


Labour overspend, Tory undercut and privatise - none of them are actually progressive past a 5 year term. You cant plan anything greatly in this country because both parties work on a short term and change things at a whim.


By 2050 both will be minority parties, because people are starting to realise they serve themselves more than civic society.

Got too excited and shot my load too early! I should have read some of the comments first. But still it's a decent offer :smile:

has it gone up slightly now guys? £6 odd

The code does not work any more? Help!!!

Looks like its expired

I guessed at UK16EU05 and it worked!

Used this on monday to send a parcel on the 24hour service, saved about £8-9 and arrived safetly the next morning.
thanks OP

asz

Can some one with Unidays member ship help me? Above 2 codes does not seem to work anymore?

UK23EU5 works

Thanks, just used that code.

What discount does that code give?

same 45% off.

Same 45% off with UK30EU5

Any more codes? Trying to send large 17KG bike with large dimensions.

Used UK06EU6 earlier. Had a weird javascript issue on firefox with their site but got it working in the end.

Thanks pal.

uk13eu6

Thanks it worked for me.

Worked, thanks.

Strange Error on Parcel Force While using "UK13EU6" - I have used this before and worked without any issue - but throwing this strange error now - ""The discount code provided is not available based on available pickup dates and times for the collection postcode you have chosen""

Hey bud - thanks this qworked for me until yesterday - today its started throwing wierd error messages - do you have an updated discount code? Thanks

UK20EU6

H
same error coming up with UK20EU6 do you know if they have changed voucher code? Thanks

Hi. They change it from time to time to stop too many non-students from using it.

It's UK27EU6 currently. Hope this helps.

what is the cheapest price and item weight with current code? i usually use myhermes.

Why not try getting a quote from them? As much as their website isn't the greatest, it only takes two minutes.

Thanks just used and worked great,
Thanks:)

Thank you preecey :smiley: I've just used the code and it worked!

Woo, worked for me. Went with this instead of another courier I've not heard of.... which was a couple of quid cheaper, but I prefer this. Nice one :smile:

Hi, is there a new code? Keep getting:

The discount code provided is not available based on available pickup dates and times for the collection postcode you have chosen

Is there a new code that works anyone?

It's a pretty basic sequence: have you tried UK11EU7?

This weeks code

UK15EU8

Better off using a comparison site like parcelmonkey who resell various courier services at a fraction of the cost on their account. You can get free insurance too I think from memory of the last time I used Parcelforce through their quote engine

Buddy, please could you share the recent code?

Thanks

UK03EU10

Anyone have a new code?

As others have mentioned, it's a simple sequence. The current code is yesterday's date followed by EU and then the month.

The first part of the code refreshes every Monday, and the last part of the code refreshes every month.

Not bad ...

please if anyone give me the current code, tried different dates now working for me

UK
What date was it Monday?
EU
Followed by the number ten for October.

As mentioned many times, it's a very simple sequence and a kid in a primary school could work it out

lovely I got it

Doesnt seem to be working now for some reasons - So logically the code for the week would be UK31EU10 - but this isn't recognised.

Received the same error message, anyone know if there is a code available? Thanks

It's UK07EU11

I don't have unidays, I just used me noggin.

Fantastic, UK07EU11 worked for me!

good find

not working now

I just verified it still works on their website, follow the simple instructions and it'll work for you.

The reason why I'm being a git and not giving you the code directly is because I don't want the code to be found via search engines.

At the end of the day, the more people who find out about this will potentially ruin it for the genuine students out there. If too many do it, Parcelforce will pull it!

Hi Anyone got this code of this month?

Use the code mentioned at the top... works here.

thanks

So this isn't expired?

Correct, it's still live.

Hmm, this weeks code is not working UK26EU12...

Didn't for UK19EU12 from Xmas Eve either...

The current code is 29 (for the third and fourth digits).

See above

UK29EU12 working for me thanks!

UK29EU12 working for me too! Thank you!

did anyone found new sequence? tried all sort of combination EUand UK for january with or without zero but no luck :disappointed:

Yes, I'm not sure what they've changed now. :disappointed:

They're a random set of letters and numbers now, I cant see how there would be a pattern in it.

anyone got code please

Ad4erF9D

Thank you

JnY77Cf3

oh eck - code for this week not known.

Thanks bud, would be great if you can provide the code for this week!

Hb7vTfy8

Thankyou very much!!!

Worked for me, thank you

Hb7vTfy8 - is there a code for this week please?

Kp2Wq72H

Buddy - sorry to bother you again - would be great if you could help me with the latest code :neutral_face: Thanks

7jhB34Dk

Has anyone got a code for this week, would be much appreciated.

9Jd77VbN

Thank you, just used this and it worked.

Cesarezp!! Most helpful, thanks!

Have you got this week's code for us please?? :smile:

TIA!!! :smiley:

Anyone got a code for this week please?

7umbleW33d ?

Haha, just tried that and it gave me 80% off! :smile:

8JQz2x6g

Thank you.

Does anyone have any current codes please?

6Gj3hp5f

Does anyone have this week's code please ?

9bX5cvP8

Thank You

Saving this for later when I have a few things to sell!

Would be really great if I you can share the new code. Thanks

FUSJ28AJ

Thanks so much for the quick response!!!

Dear bud, would you be please able to share the code for the week

GSH4D3FW

Thank you for this <3

getting an error "The discount code provided is not available based on available pickup dates and times for the collection postcode you have chosen" when using "GSH4D3FW"
anyone could share a different 40% code that might work

PUSE31AD

Hello, does anyone have the new code please?

Would you be so kind as to post the code if you have it? Thanks :sunglasses:

98UNVX34

You're the best! :sunglasses:

I hope you don't mind me asking you now and then? :smiley:

any code that is working ?
thanx

Dear, can i please ask you for the new code - thanks

JAF48FJK

Thanks but tried this and says not valid for country, France.

Does anyone have another code please, thank you

I've never known them to offer international discounts.

****! The OP included International, thanks for your reply though

Got an email from ParcelForce about the student discount being 40% with UNiDAYs:

ParcelForce Student Discount With UNiDAYs

http://www.parcelforce.com/student-offer <- terms and conditions

(sorry forgot to add, not as new deal... just stating info they tell me - and my email says 40%)

hi cesarezp,

Could you share this weeks code please?