The price of stamps to rise

[blythburgh]

I was convinced the birthday was 14th when I checked it was on the 10th. Get a card, use our last 1st class stamp and drive to local sub post office as they post is collected from the post box there several times a day. The ones we could walk to are emptied once very early in the day.

The sorting office is no more than 3 miles away and we posted the card before two collections at the post box.

Phone birthday boy the next day to learn no card has arrived. Does he live hundreds of miles away from the sorting office? Nope about a mile from us in the middle of an urban area.

Why didn't we hand deliver the card? Would have been cheaper but nice to get a card in the post we thought

[colondee]

Increasing the value of a first class stamp just makes it cheaper for everyone who has stockpiled old stamps to send large letters and parcels (for example ebay sellers). And they've even swapped most old stamps into new stamps for free.

From October you will be able to send a Special Delivery for five 1st class and 10p. 5 years ago you needed ten 1st class, and it was probably even more "expensive" going further to the past.

Also when RM loses a letter they now send you 8 first class stamps as compensation, which is going to be worth £13.20. So anything I sell on ebay for less than £13 I will be "better off" if it gets lost in the post (assuming that I would pay full price for future postal services).

5 years ago you only got 6 stamps which were worth £5.

[Richard Frost]

The cost of a first-class stamp will rise by 5p to £1.70 on 7 April, Royal Mail has announced.

It will also raise the price of a second-class stamp by 2p to 87p on the same day.

I cannot believe these are going up yet again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygl9vj28do

[Sarah]

Yeah, but at least the service is getting bett... oh, nevermind.

[Richard Frost]

I suppose we should be thankful we are not in Denmark https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8jllq283o
Although according to the article the competitors are there to take up the gap. The problem here is that all the competitors use Royal Mail as their last step.

Realistically it must be very difficult for Royal Mail given the rise in electronic communications and Social Media.