How much postage on a postcard from UK to US?

Not sure if this goes here, but I thought it was a money matter thing

As a poor starving student, I am finding myself forced to send postcards to family and friends in the US. I went to the Royal Mail website, and the lowest postage I could find was £0.54 for an airmail letter. I know in the US, it's way less to send a postcard than a letter (or at least I thought it was). I'm going to be sending about 15 postcards out, and I don't want to be putting 54p on every one if it should have only cost me 35p or whatever (I need change to do my laundry! lol!). Anyone know if that is the correct rate or if it's actually less expensive?

Thanks!

PS: I don't want anyone to think I'm actually starving, that was a joke

Hi Becky,

The charge of around 54p to send a postcard to the US from the UK sounds about right. Remember, the 32p charge is for UK to UK delivery, so 22p or so more to get it to the USA seems correct.

Now for some lateral thinking...

Gather up all 15 of your postcards, and send them together to your home/family address. Then get a member of yer family to send them out domestically within the US. I'd hazzard a guess that by sending them this way, it'll overall cost less than 15 x £0.54 = £8.10.

slight guess, 15 postcards would cost about £2 to send as a package to send from here, seeing as it's so light. Then if the domestic post charge for each is about 40c which is 20p then that's about £3. So the total is around £5.10 equating to around a 40% saving!

Stick another pound in and nip over to tesco and pickup 5 'long term price deal' frozen meals for 4 quid!

Also as a student, you need to work out more 'inventive ways' of making money to help you along - I have *cough* suggestions which I used to do at uni, but not sure if you'd do those - maybe just the 'less bad' ones!!

hope that helps!

Cheers! DtM! West London & Slough UK!

Thanks Dennis! I wasn't even really sure how much domestic postage was here in the UK (I didn't think to look that up on the Royal Mail website when I was looking), so that does make sense.

I would just send them back home, but I think part of the experience of getting a postcard is the stamp and the postmark from the foreign location. At least that's part of what I enjoy about it. I don't mind spending the extra money if that's really how much it costs, I was more concerned with me stupidly putting way too much postage on them and wasting my money.

As for making money, I have a job back in the US. I work about 5-10 hours a week but I make $18 an hour so it's a nice boost to the money I already have saved. Thanks for the suggestion though

Thanks for the help!