The cost of a stamp

[nick.lidgett]

Well done gentlemen -you have made my day -

I can now go and creosote my shed with a smile.

dave

This was not our intention, on behalf of all of us here, please accept my sincere apologise

 

[pitchfork]

It's so rare you need to post anything.

Really?

I post a lot of letters, who doesn't like receiving a hand written letter?

 

[pastymuncher]

It's not just stamps though, it's everything. Full price list effective 31/03/14 here.

 

[AndyCroft1982]

I blame jonney foreignors !

 

[Fubsy]

Cost of small parcels 1-2KG reducing in price, when will this madness end!?!

 

[tom_e]

I blame jonney foreignors !

It's quite obviously the queen's fault, it is called Royal Mail after all.

 

[AndyCroft1982]

It's quite obviously the queen's fault, it is called Royal Mail after all.

Only in name im afraid

 

[tom_e]

Only in name im afraid

Don't be silly I've seen queenie driving the van round here before.

 

[AndyCroft1982]

Don't be silly I've seen queenie driving the van round here before.

PICS OR IT NEVER HAPPENED LOL

 

[Dr House]

I would be happy to pay £1.5p per letter as it would probable stop half of the junk mail being sent to me.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

What was the netflix content like back then OP?

It was in black and white

 

[DXP55]

This was not our intention, on behalf of all of us here, please accept my sincere apologise

Apologies accepted except from the one idiot.

Dave

 

[Skidder]

If only you were an economist, you could...........TLDR.

I have an economics degree and an MBA and I am an owner of an economics consulting firm and have worked as economist for 15 years plus but that still doesn't make me agree with you

 

[Diddums]

I'm an astronaut and a binman.

 

[Skidder]

I'm an astronaut and a binman.

Clever stuff those space bins, can't have glop rags and dehydrated ice cream packets floating around the ISS

 

[Diddums]

Too right, they could end up in the cybernetic ant-mavity pulse driven hydromotors!

 

[Efour]

Martin Luther King's speach "I have a log burner!"

 

[murah]

Streets awash with burning letterboxes next.

Genuinely laughed as I took a sip of Tea, you owe me a new monitor

 

[Angilion]

I'm trying to remember the last time i paid to send something in the post. Not sure i've ever bought a stamp :/

I think you can't buy a stamp any more. Whenever I see them for sale, it's for a mininum of 6.

I only send 6 things by post per year.

I'm almost sure that the cost of stamps has gone down in comparison with average income.

Now I've made myself curious. The OP used old money, so I'll compare with 1970, the last year of old money.

1 minute of looking and I couldn't find it, so I'll go with the cost in 1968, which was 5d for first class.

In 1968, the average pay in the UK was about £1500 a year. 7200 stamps, assuming that the £1500 figure was in old money with 240 pence to the pound. Should be that many anyway, as the cost of a stamp would scale the same way.

In 2014, the average pay in the UK is about £26500 a year. 42741 stamps.

So yes, the real cost of a stamp has dropped a lot since the days the OP was talking about.

 

[Angilion]

[..]
Once upon a time there was one rule to politics - and it is the reason people elected to have leadership and government. The rule was to look after your constituency, first and foremost, look after your people. [..]

When was that? It doesn't seem to match anything I've read about in history.

As an example of corruption in politics in this country, I think the rotten boroughs of ~200 years ago take the prize. Outright buying of seats was normal and expected. That's about as corrupt as you can get.