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Hi Matty,   Yeah, the automatic postage parameters on paypalUK are illogical when UK postage is (I assume almost exclusively) based upon the weight of the item. Like you, I'm pretty reluctant to go down the 3rd party route due to complexity and time. At the moment I'm thinking of using the 'shipping' and 'shipping2' variables on my 'add to cart' buttons, thereby giving every item a fixed postage and additional postage cost on multiple purchases of the same item. It is a far from ideal solution but, other than the unfavourable third party option, I'm not sure what else to do.     ... View more

@Brianpp wrote: Paypal offers various different features in different markets/ countries.  Some are more limited than others and in some places it's not available at all. This answer does not reveal the logic behind offering different features in different countries, it merely states the fact that paypal does this. If somebody would just come out and say 'paypal uk will never offer a feature where you can select postage value by weight because we want you to use third parties' (or something to that effect) we could all stop tearing our hair out and get on with discovering alternative solutions. ... View more