Royal Mail - Grrrrrrr........

I have mentioned this in my web site but will put it here as well. I write of the draconian increase in price of parcels here in the UK since the middle of April. As you may know I sell my A1 size posters in a cardboard tube - measuring 24 " by 2" in old money. Before the price hike it cost £2.70 to post inland by Royal Mail - it has now risen to £5.65 - thus more than doubling the price in an instant. The actual cardboard tube costs me a minimum of 65p, so I should charge £7.30 to post one poster - who on earth is going to pay that on top of the cost of the poster. I may have to stop selling posters by post and just try for sales at seminars. Does anyone want a few hundred posters?????? We are out to dinner with some old friends tonight - what a nice change. Be good - John