MSE News: MPs back stamp price rises

Terri00

I hardly use RM anymore.. and finding that im using them less and less! .. don't trust them at all.
I occasionally buy and sell dvds and more than a few times dvds have gone missing :mad: sticky fingers methinks!

As for the price rise.. WHY?? nothing but greed! Not once in 5 years I have got post on a Monday.
I do all my banking stuff and booking forms etc.

I agree with above post about using electronic mail, its easier, quicker, completly safe from theft and FREE!!

custardy

Terri00 wrote: »

I hardly use RM anymore.. and finding that im using them less and less! .. don't trust them at all.
I occasionally buy and sell dvds and more than a few times dvds have gone missing :mad: sticky fingers methinks!

As for the price rise.. WHY?? nothing but greed! Not once in 5 years I have got post on a Monday.
I do all my banking stuff and booking forms etc.

I agree with above post about using electronic mail, its easier, quicker, completly safe from theft and FREE!!

see what I mean

123snowy

TINT wrote: »

Royal Mail is still one of the cheapest in Europe,although we have the highest fuel prices,it must cost them a fortune to deliver to every address , and a stamp is still cheaper than a chocolate bar, very good service and good value.

I hope that they don't cut your Post Ofice pension by too much. Only joking but I smiled at a lot at the comparison with the cost of a chocolate bar , why is that relevant? Welcome to the forum

vfr1200

Pat52,I would like to know when the cost of special delivery was 26p....?

mikebeaches

The thing I find completely amazing is that it is 7 March 2012 today, and in about 3 weeks the cost of postage is going up significantly.... BUT, nobody yet knows by how much?

It is incredible that a national institution that provides the most important mail service to the British public cannot tell its customers how much it will cost to send a letter next month!

And I can't begin to imagine what it must be like for folk in business trying to budget for their deliveries.

What is going on? How did RM get into this mess, where it can't say what it's services will cost in three weeks time?

sailorchief

No-one nowadays seems to remember the basic economic 'Law of Diminishing Returns'
I can see my local Scouts doing a roaring trade at Christmas and the RM getting a lot of egg on its' face very soon....
I get mail from the USA posted there at less than half the price it costs to post the same letter back 7000 miles to Montana!

custardy

sailorchief wrote: »

No-one nowadays seems to remember the basic economic 'Law of Diminishing Returns'
I can see my local Scouts doing a roaring trade at Christmas and the RM getting a lot of egg on its' face very soon....
I get mail from the USA posted there at less than half the price it costs to post the same letter back 7000 miles to Montana!

you mean the Scout post
the ones who every year,end up dumping unpaid items in RMs system.
USA,the monopolised service?

Smidster

Any idea when a decision will actually be announced - sure any price rises will be implemented shortly?

ringo1947

I think it's pretty clear that this year's Royal Mail price increases are very significant and not going to please anybody.
It is now only 4 days until the new prices are implemented and you can't find details anywhere.
Really smacks of "don't tell them until it's too late". How can anyone price up the cost of sending items through the post from next Monday without prices being published.

custardy

ringo1947 wrote: »

I think it's pretty clear that this year's Royal Mail price increases are very significant and not going to please anybody.
It is now only 4 days until the new prices are implemented and you can't find details anywhere.
Really smacks of "don't tell them until it's too late". How can anyone price up the cost of sending items through the post from next Monday without prices being published.

really?
try again

http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Royal_Mail_Our_Prices.pdf

http://www.royalmail.com/prices2012

business prices come in April 2nd(a month after announced)
residential April 30th,over a month from announcement