Royal Mail - postage prices
1st Class post is going up again on 7th October
It was £1.10 this time last year
rose to £1.25 last October
rose to £1.35 April 2024
Going up to £1.65 on October 7th 2024 !!
Not that anybody uses post these days
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I remember when we'd be up in arms about a penny rise on a stamp once a year!
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So do I - an old penny (1d) at that…..
I think that enough's - enough with royal mail - we should refuse to use them unless they reduce prices !
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I'm going to admit but, I've seen how much worse it could be. Not saying the prices going up are great.
I recently had to post some keys back to my partner's family in the USA. It cost me about £10 for a tracked delivery.
A year ago we wanted to do the same, but returning keys from the USA to the UK. We went to USPS (the US national postal service), UPS, FedEx. The reason we visited so many? The cheapest price at USPS was $80 and it would take 2 weeks (we'd be back by then). If we wanted it delivered within a week it would be nearly $200.
Meanwhile, I've sent a few parcels from here to the states and it gets there the next day for around a tenner.
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It's the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen, they wonder why people use the post less and put the prices up to cover costs then wonder why people use the post less lol
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..it wasn't even a penny every year but people were still outraged.
Royal Mail says it's the private delivery companies which have taken their business away and forced the price rises.
RM was sold off to a Czech billionaire in May this year..
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Only use post for Birthday cards will all have to go second class.
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I bought a load of 2nd class stamps a couple of years ago when I started sending a lot of mail. Change in circs meant I've still got a load left! I rarely use them now, maybe 4 or 5 times a year, will last more than a decade at that rate lol.
Obviously that sort of use isn't enough for RM to keep going, so I'm not surprised they have to keep putting prices up. Realistically I don't expect the company to last much longer with the same system. I think they'll be forced to change to a courier style system where postbox collections are limited and they will instead collect directly from a persons house, ordered online or by phone. I also believe they will only deliver 3 days a week.
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In my London borough, the last collection time from letterboxes is 9am - yes, 9am 😄
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I think my parents buy stamps in bulk from Costco, my dad has his own personal business so gets access to it.
Also wow @WhatThe that's so early 🤣 I don't think I've seen one before 3pm before myself.
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It's a very recent change. It says last collection 9am but there isn't an earlier one 😉
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It's been around 9am here for at least 10 years. I'll have to check the exact time next time I walk past a box now. I always make sure to put things in the day before I want them to go as I could never get to the box that early. 🙂
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You can find the last collection time from your local post box by putting your post code into https://www.localpostbox.co.uk/
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Miss the old postman pat. I know it was more expensive but there's something about stop motion animation that just feels better. Maybe it's just nostalgia for my childhood?
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He was a favourite in this house too, not least because we had a black and white cat!
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whatabout Labor? 😁
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That's an interesting site but it's very wrong for my local box. I checked again yesterday. The 'latest' collection is 9am weekdays. Or 7am on a Saturday! 😄
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@WhatThe I didn't know they had been bought out. I feel like not using it anymore, why can't British things (like Cadbury as another example) stay British?
I remember when a 1st class stamp cost about 25p!
The couriers have become so popular that their service is really bad, that's why I went back to RM. But now I'm not sure about them.
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I remember when 2nd class postage cost 4d - that's less than 2p
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Wow, that's cheap..
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