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MSE News: Price of stamps to rise in April

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  • jenniewb
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    afaik superdrug have not got an end date on the 5% off stamps- its been going for years now.

    Is it just me or is this stamp rise thing going up way faster then inflation? how long d'you think before another company starts up its own postal service in competition ?
  • Eco_Miser
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    jenniewb wrote: »
    how long d'you think before another company starts up its own postal service in competition ?
    Such as TNT and other couriers?
    Probably never for occasional-use customers. Has already happened for high-volume customers, which is part of the problem for Royal Mail.
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  • custardy
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    Eco_Miser wrote: »
    Such as TNT and other couriers?
    Probably never for occasional-use customers. Has already happened for high-volume customers, which is part of the problem for Royal Mail.

    gotta love ignorance ;)
    jennieweb,why not start looking at the mail you receive and look how much is sent via other companies yet is delivered by RM
    how do you think that works?
  • Aesop
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    I am not too bothered about the price of stamps, as very rarely send anything by post anymore. You can send e-cards for free, ok not quite the same as a posted card, but people use email a lot more, as cheaper, quicker responses, and more likely to get there.

    But if I do need to post something prefer to send it second class to first class. First class is not guaranteed next day delivery.
  • edinburgher
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    edited 23 December 2009 at 10:24AM
    First class is not guaranteed next day delivery.

    Indeed - they have Special Delivery for that (which starts at around 10* the cost of a first class stamp). I too remember when a first class stamp almost always meant next day delivery - it still does in some cases - but I think that guaranteeing to bring a letter hundreds of miles in the space of a few short hours for 40p odds would be commercial suicide for RM :D
  • Private companies will cream off the profitable deliveries leaving Royal mail to go bankrupt trying to deliver mail from Penzance to the Outer Hebrides. It is barking.

    The Royal Mail is a wonderful organisation. Somepeople are happy spending £500+ per year to watch TV but moan about paying for things with true value.

    GG
    There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
  • edinburgher
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    Agreed GG, but having worked as a postie for a spell some of the attempts at modernisation will hopefully further increase their strength as a competitor to private companies aggressively seeking to pinch their business.

    Sadly there's a human cost to this and I'm not going to go into that side of the discussion. Suffice to say you get lazy beggars in all jobs (although most folk work hard) and hopefully if anyone has to lose a post it will not be the hard working post men or women who really deserve better than some of the vitriol levelled at them in the press over the last year or so..
  • Sadly, when companies ask for voluntary redundancies it is generally the hard-working skilled men and women who volunteer first.

    I think that in a country where unemployment is high there is some merit in keeping people employed. The difference in monetary terms is quite small (especially if tax on the costs of going to work is factored in) but the benefits of having a working population rather than one languishing on the dole is immeasurable.

    GG
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  • telboyo
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    A few weeks ago when the Postal strikes were taking place I askled around and nobody could correctly quote the cost of posting a letter, therefore I suggested that the Royal Mail could increase the cost by 3p, every one disagreed even though they had no clue what this increase would mean in percentage terms.
    Special delivery ios a rip -off if you are out during the day, they will not put it through your letter box, so you will have to go to the local office to pick it up thereby wasting another day!

    I signed up for Amazon prime (Next day delivery), this is a complete waste of time, if you are lucky they send it by Royal mail and you are faced with the above predicament, if you are lucky you can get ti re-delivered to a local post office. At other times they use Citylink which are located in the middle of no-where and insist that you bring both sets of grandparents with you each of them holding 2 pieces of ID and the passports of their unborn grandchildren before releasing the packages. otherwise they will re-deliver at exactly the same time that you were not in yesterday.
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