CAN someone at Consignia (Royal Mail to most of us) explain why it cost me £2.10 to send a calendar weighing 200g to New Zealand, when the same item, weighing exactly the same, cost my friends only the Kiwi equivalent of 75p to send to me? Presumably the air fare is the same in each direction?

P S Fowler.

Bramble Dene,

York.

Updated: 11:03 Wednesday, December 12, 2001