Stamps to rise in price

Unbelievable. Best stock up a bit, if you can afford to.

Pretty shocking prices, sadly not backed up by great service.

Thanks for the heads up - I’ll definitely stock up with enough for various birthday cards.

Not usually too bothered by this sort of thing but I feel outraged about this.
Delivery service here is OK but my mum has a shocking service, and she relies on it far more than I do.
I shall certainly be stocking up.

Yeah good idea to stock up.
I wouldn’t mind the price rise too much, as only use them for sending cards, but the service is such rubbish and often cards don’t arrive for over a week even with a first class stamp.

Sometimes cards seem to arrive more quickly with a 2nd class stamp! On the other hand, I had a postcard from Italy which arrived 5 months after it was posted.

I rarely post letters and I never send Christmas cards. I prefer to pick up the phone and send verbal greetings. RM should be getting their act together instead of constant price increases.

Georgesgran

Thanks for the heads up - I’ll definitely stock up with enough for various birthday cards.

Good point.

I sometimes now spend more on stamps than the actual card.

Our family is getting used to sending cards up to a week in advance.
Gone are the days of trying to get the card to arrive on the actual morning.

Around here, the post box delivery used to be twice a day.
Since beginning of this year, it has gone to once a day only.

Classic: less service, more cost. Another privatisation success.

It's a sad situation - especially for those who rely on letters and cards for contact rather than email.

I always tried to stock up with stamps before a price increase. Was left with quite a number of first class ones when they changed, and had to send them off for reimbursement.

I post very few letters nowadays, so any birthday cards get a first class one, as I send nothing else really.

I send mostly birthday cars, but my teenage GDs love a letter. I shall buy two books of 2nd class each week this month . That should see me alright for this yeas. Although Christmas might be expensive.

I also had a stock of stamps and had to send them off to get them replaced for barcode ones. They all have the Queen's head on. I just hope they remain usable for some time.

It is an awful lot to send a letter a few miles but if it's going from Kent to the north of Scotland maybe it's still a reasonable price.

1). People are sending fewer letters because of (amongst other things) the unreliability of the postal service and the price of stamps
2). So let’s put the price up more.

Which Homer Simpson school of business came up with this idea?
(Apologies to Homer, who is considerably brighter)