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Leekbrookgull

Well-known member
Jul 14, 2005
16,359
Leek
As of October will be £1.65 R/M claim loss in letters etc and the cost of delivery. As for next day delivery well we all know about that. Others will no doubt see it differently, for me i will settle for doorstep post Momday, Wednesday and Friday weekend post doesnt bother us. I would rather the company prosper and then hopefully the workforce will see improved T&C ?
 




GT49er

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Feb 1, 2009
48,638
Gloucester
As of October will be £1.65 R/M claim loss in letters etc and the cost of delivery. As for next day delivery well we all know about that. Others will no doubt see it differently, for me i will settle for doorstep post Momday, Wednesday and Friday weekend post doesnt bother us. I would rather the company prosper and then hopefully the workforce will see improved T&C ?
Just over one hundred and sixty five times the price of sending a letter when I was a kid! Hardly surprising it's not used much these days, especially with newer forms of communication - texts and emails - so much quicker and cheaper.
 






Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
71,965
Just over one hundred and sixty five times the price of sending a letter when I was a kid! Hardly surprising it's not used much these days, especially with newer forms of communication - texts and emails - so much quicker and cheaper.
Are you sure? 😀

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Fungus

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May 21, 2004
7,113
Truro
Does anyone else still send actual birthday cards? It’s nice to receive them, but I’ve been late a couple of times recently and resorted to 1st class stamps.
 












Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park
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Apr 5, 2014
25,570
Blame your Politicians. They privatised Royal Mail, if we had kept it public it would still be under a pound.
I don't know if that's true. It's not at float that bothered me too much as there is much competition these days. Water and electricity is another matter.
 


nicko31

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Jan 7, 2010
18,246
Gods country fortnightly
So with no price on the stamp it’s a good time to stock up, 22 percent on your money overnight
 


GT49er

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Feb 1, 2009
48,638
Gloucester
So with no price on the stamp it’s a good time to stock up, 22 percent on your money overnight
Worked fantastically until the bastards included compulsory QR codes (Charlie boy didn't want a smaller portrait to accommodate the QR codes, apparently).
 




Super Steve Earle

Well-known member
Feb 23, 2009
8,831
North of Brighton
Does anyone else still send actual birthday cards? It’s nice to receive them, but I’ve been late a couple of times recently and resorted to 1st class stamps.
I do. Still nicely in to double figures for receipt this week too.
 


smiler

Well-known member
Jan 12, 2006
673
Shoreham by Sea
As of October will be £1.65 R/M claim loss in letters etc and the cost of delivery. As for next day delivery well we all know about that. Others will no doubt see it differently, for me i will settle for doorstep post Momday, Wednesday and Friday weekend post doesnt bother us. I would rather the company prosper and then hopefully the workforce will see improved T&C ?
We don't get a three day service now it is a Thursday service only
 


Peteinblack

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NSC Patron
Jun 3, 2004
4,049
Bath, Somerset.
Usual crass corporate logic - fewer people are buying our product or service, so let's increase the price to increase our revenue and restore profitability :shrug:

Meanwhile last year, the Royal Mail CEO was paid £540,000 salary & £140,000 bonus.

Typical Privatistion = worse employment conditions and practices for the workers, higher prices and poorer level of service for the public as customers, but the usual generous salaries and bonuses for the bosses who preside over this shambles.
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
54,927
Faversham
As of October will be £1.65 R/M claim loss in letters etc and the cost of delivery. As for next day delivery well we all know about that. Others will no doubt see it differently, for me i will settle for doorstep post Momday, Wednesday and Friday weekend post doesnt bother us. I would rather the company prosper and then hopefully the workforce will see improved T&C ?
I don't use the post very often. I sent an old pal a Chrimbo card last year and inadvertently put an 'old' first class stamp on it, plucked from a dusty recess in my wallet.

Oops! No longer legal stampage. He was surcharged more than £2 to access my wishes of goodwill.

So, yes, increase the price if necessary, albeit honour old stamps.
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
54,927
Faversham
Usual crass corporate logic - fewer people are buying our product or service, so let's increase the price to increase our revenue and restore profitability :shrug:

Meanwhile last year, the Royal Mail CEO was paid £540,000 salary & £140,000 bonus.

Typical Privatistion = worse employment conditions and practices for the workers, higher prices and poorer level of service for the public as customers, but the usual generous salaries and bonuses for the bosses who preside over this shambles.
I must confess that I hadn't realized the post office had been privatized. That makes the outmoding of my first class stamps unacceptable. When I bought them they didn't come with a notice of expiry date.

As Peter Cook would say, what a way to run a night club.
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
54,927
Faversham
So with no price on the stamp it’s a good time to stock up, 22 percent on your money overnight
Not so. See my post below about Christmas cards.

Incidentally my mate in Henley was surcharged whereas people elsewhere in the UK in receipt of my Crimbo cards with out of date stamps were not.

They aren't even consistent when they take the piss, it seems.
 


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