All foreigners who apply for Tourist Visa at the Royal Thai Embassies and the Royal Thai Consulates-General worldwide will be exempted from tourist visa fee from 25 June 2009 to March B.E.2553 (2010).
Such arrangement is for Tourist Visa single entry only.
You can do it by post and its to the thai consulate in hull, if you google it you will find the website and can download the visa form, it only take about a week. It will only activate on entry to thailand not from it being issused but must be activated within 6 months.