On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:29:09 +0000, Mick
wrote:

Hi all,
I have been collecting wedding photos from everyone in our
family I could as part of my family tree research.
At least with weddings a date can be found, unlike "Auntie's" tin of
good old photos with no names or dates on them :-)

I have made some albums up with 5 generations of wedding photos in
them and 72 photos in each album.
They are small and neat looking with general family information about
each family and were possible a later in life photo too, it shows us
aging!

I have four to post to Australia, (from the UK) I do not have any
special scales but on my kitchen scales the package weighs 2, 1/2
pound or 1.250 KG.

Are there different postal methods I could ask for?
Is all post Air mail now?

I do not begrudge the postal charge but just wondered if there are
options ?

Apart from waiting for the next time you or a kind friend or relative
flies out there, Royal Mail is probably going to offer you the
cheapest options from anonymous small packet/printed papers upwards. I
suggest you take a look at royalmail.com and play around with the
weights and delivery methods and see what looks best to you. And if
you find you are on the margins of a weight boundary you can play
around a bit to keep within specific limits. From your point of view,
you might save money by combining some or all of them but the gesture
you are making might wear a little thin if Aunt Jessie has to stump up
a number of dollars to get part of the consignment over to Aunt
Arabella on the other side of the continent.

Nick