Full Members are already welcome to post adverts in Classifieds offering items for just the cost of postage.
This all sounds a lot like Swap Shop, open to everyone, but the person offering saying they don't want anything in exchange, but could the recipient pay postage.
The problem I see with this as things stand is that Swap rules say no money to change hands.
If the rules are changed, or a new forum created to allow for offering items for just the cost of postage, there is the chance for people to try to game the system by asking for more postage than they actually use. Or at least they could appear to be doing so, awkward to police.
I well know the time and effort I can put in to packaging up awkward shaped or delicate items, I get materials free from work, but it can take an entire evening cutting down and re-forming boxes and finding the right padding. More than once the postage has turned out to be more than I quoted because of packaging weight, or size of the item being too big for RM, and I have had to swallow the increase, which tends to leave an after taste. When my quoted postage price is more than what is stamped on the package, that is where the difference goes, packing materials, but I can imagine that if people started scrutinising, questions could be asked. Certainly on EBay some sellers appear to inflate postage to offset low asking prices.
