Stamps up 20%

Spenty said:
1st world problems.
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Indeed. Pointless discussing 1st world problems when we...........live in the 1st world.

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As mentioned above, like many things we moan about, it's still cheap for what it is, and I pretty much only post things at birthdays and mother's day anyway.

Christmas will be a bit of a slap in the face, maybe I'll dabble with e-cards this year :p.
 
It's still cheap, but some people do have a point about the decline in service from the Royal Mail, be that down to mis-management or whatever.

Has the business class gone up also? It might actually help reduce the amount of crap sent out. :p
 
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.
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because they use an online service rather than a machine; the online service which allows you to prepay and print your own labels.

Use that and you can put a dodgy migrant out of a job.
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scorza said:
Maybe they should stop delivering their competitor's mail for them then?
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Logistically very difficult. Completely demonopolising the end-to-end postal service is unbelievably difficult logistically speaking... It would mean having 4 different sets of post boxes and 4 different sets of post men and yeah, it's a pain basically...

Guess this would be a reason to buy 100 or so now...

kd
 
King Damager said:
Logistically very difficult. Completely demonopolising the end-to-end postal service is unbelievably difficult logistically speaking... It would mean having 4 different sets of post boxes and 4 different sets of post men and yeah, it's a pain basically...

Guess this would be a reason to buy 100 or so now...

kd
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Just bought 800 1st class and 800 2nd class in the last hour.
 
King Damager said:
Logistically very difficult. Completely demonopolising the end-to-end postal service is unbelievably difficult logistically speaking... It would mean having 4 different sets of post boxes and 4 different sets of post men and yeah, it's a pain basically...
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I don't see how that is Royal Mail's problem though. A problem for their competitors without their own "last mile" capability for sure, but I don't see why they should profit by piggy-backing on the hard work of others.
 
Nitefly said:
How many letters do you send? :eek:
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I think that amount would last me about 300 years.

Non issue it's to cheap, they aren't charging enough and it's not helped by the fact they are obliged to take competitors mail for below cost amount.


OldCoals said:
How many people in this thread have sent a letter in the last month?
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Maybe 4-6 a year. But even that's going down, now cameras are good enough to take a pic of a document and then can be emailed. I really should get a printer with a scanner, like I used to have before it broke.
 
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Does anybodies supermarket, Asda, tesco etc, still let you buy single stamps or do they force you to buy a book of 4 like all the ones near me?

I maybe used 3 stamps in the last year so I may just buy a couple of books at current prices and be done with it.

And how is junk mail affected by this, does the cost of sending that go up as well, which we all probably pay for in the prices of goods at the end of the day anyway?
 
IIRC, all the junk mail I have received recently has all been sent via CityLink or TNT post providers, which means the stamp price increase won't affect them.
 
[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?!
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How on earth do the Post Office make any money?
 
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