Stamps up 20%

d_brennen · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:05

Greebo said:
The fact that the increase is over 30%, you would expect the headline to be "stamps increased by over 30%" and not 20%. Technically they are right, but they could equally have a headline saying "stamps increased by over 10%"

Strange for them not to use 30% in their headline.

Journalist in not confident of their math shocker

Repta · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:09

60p to send a letter anywhere in the country and for it to arrive next day, still seems good value for money tbh!

GAC · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:10

Hatter The Mad said:
eh

ooops its cheaper for them to post it via royal mail then it is for royal mail to use there own service, need more coffee

mp3duck · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:11

I have a book of 200 1st and 200 2nd stamps about 20% used at home, so I guess I am OK for a while!

BunnyKillBot · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:13

Royal Mail, yet another example of a British institution with Aged management failing to move with the times.

Can anybody explain to me why the post office still does not have self service machines, and why its necessary to pay a wage to a dodgy migrant worker to print off a label and give you the correct change.

In my opinion, the post office is the perfect example of where self service machines would be useful.

But alas, this is England. We put retirement age people in management and wonder why they are befuddled by technology.

buchtis · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:18

This country is getting too expensive to live in.

d_brennen · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:19

buchtis said:
This country is getting too expensive to live in.

I hear Somalia has a buoyant jobs market

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pingwing · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:32

Post office needed this rise something like 5 years ago, with everything getting much more expensive they cannot afford the service they operate with things like petrol becoming even more expensive

BunnyKillBot said:
Can anybody explain to me why the post office still does not have self service machines, and why its necessary to pay a wage to a dodgy migrant worker to print off a label and give you the correct change.

In my opinion, the post office is the perfect example of where self service machines would be useful.

But alas, this is England. We put retirement age people in management and wonder why they are befuddled by technology.

Mine in St Albans has one, I turn up with my bag of pennies, avoid the queue and put my random letters in the box or packages down at the parcel in bit without wasting my own time.

/Anti-England fail

Danthus · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:32

PapaLazaru said:
Ridiculous price hike. How the hell can they justify this?

Because is costs the same to send a letter from London to Edinburgh as it does to send the same letter within London.

The price of a stamp is ridiculous.

Nitefly · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:34

buchtis said:
This country is getting too expensive to live in.

lol - noooooo not the 60p stamps!

Danthus · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:34

How many people in this thread have sent a letter in the last month?

[TW]Fox · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:42

So you are telling me that somebody will collect a document I've posted from a box near my house, take it to a depot, sort it, put it on a plane or a truck, drive it to the other side of the country, sort it again, put it on a van and personally deliver it to the house of my choice?

And all they want to charge for this is... 60 pence?!

Danthus · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:44

[TW]Fox;21563004 said:
So you are telling me that somebody will collect a document I've posted from a box near my house, take it to a depot, sort it, put it on a plane or a truck, drive it to the other side of the country, sort it again, put it on a van and personally deliver it to the house of my choice?

And all they want to charge for this is... 60 pence?!

Bargain if you ask me!

sbi5ar · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:45

[TW]Fox;21563004 said:
So you are telling me that somebody will collect a document I've posted from a box near my house, take it to a depot, sort it, put it on a plane or a truck, drive it to the other side of the country, sort it again, put it on a van and personally deliver it to the house of my choice?

And all they want to charge for this is... 60 pence?!

Awaits the *60p isn't bad if they could be bothered to deliver my post to me and not lose it* crowd

Diesel · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:57

An increase has been needed for some time.

I recently sent some small parcels from a local Post Office (self service for the guy who said you couldn't) and was surprised at how cheap it was.

Spenty · 27 Mar 2012 at 12:57

1st world problems.

Skillmister · 27 Mar 2012 at 13:01

60p isn't bad if they could be bothered to deliver my post to me and not lose it.

Edrof · 27 Mar 2012 at 13:04

I hope RM use the extra money to teach their sorters and posties how to actually read addresses. That'd be great.

mame · 27 Mar 2012 at 13:10

Seems cheap to me. I probably post about 1 letter a year that doesn't have a pre-paid envelope. At least email is still free

I think moaning about stamp prices is just something people have picked up from their parents and grand-parents. A bit like when people exclaim that they wouldn't buy a washer-drier. It's a kind of hear-say to them. Cars 'losing' money, that kind of thing. People just say it because they hear it.