Olympic Postcode Surcharges

[jont]

How are people handling the surcharges for London during the Olympic games?

Most carriers are imposing a surcharge for a vast swathe of London and then the Olympic Village being hit by the sponsored exclusivity (I wont start the anti-competitive argument here).

Setting up locations for all the postcodes is not feasible so wondering how everyone else is approaching it? Existing shipping tables are not linked to a carrier but set up manually.

[Paul Bulpit]

Fedex aren't imposing surcharges:

http://www.fedex.com/gb/about/2012su...lan/index.html

[Harts Of Stur]

We have decided reluctantly not to charge the customer the surcharge.

Personally think it is a bit of profiteering by carriers.

[Jan]

Be very careful with deliveries to olympic venues - the charges for those can be really high, cityilnk is £25 and ukmail is even more. We are going to swallow the olympic area charges but will be charging extra for deliveries to olympic venues - it's unlikely that we will get any of those though.

[plantsforshade]

It may be as well to send things by FedEx UK as they are not surcharging any deliveries, at least that is what the local depot has told us.

Nigel