Paying for recorded delivery with old stamps?

Nednats

I stocked up on stamps before the price increase. I want send a letter recorded delivery. How do I do this? If I put the correct number of stamps on will the post office give me a tracking number?

shaun_from_Africa

Yes.

You simply put on the correct postage for the size and weight of the item (postage only, don't include the cost for recorded, which I think is 77p), and take it to a post office.

The clerk will print out and attach a recorded delivery sticker and only charge you the cost for this.

Nednats

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Yes.

You simply put on the correct postage for the size and weight of the item (postage only, don't include the cost for recorded, which I think is 77p), and take it to a post office.

The clerk will print out and attach a recorded delivery sticker and only charge you the cost for this.

I thought I could pay for record part with stamps as well

KxMx

It's £0.90 now for RD.

custardy

Nednats wrote: »

I thought I could pay for record part with stamps as well

you can














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pursestring

You can put on the postage for recorded as well. At the post office
they’ll put on a recorded sticker and give you a receipt with the recorded
number.

Recorded delivery is now 95p in addition to the 1st of 2nd class price.

Nednats

It is £1.55 for 1st recorded small letter.
Could I put 3 2nd class stamps (50p) and 5p stamp on letter and take it to the post office and get it sent 1st recorded?

joe_purdy

I do the exact same as Nednats, i bought lots of stamps before 30th april to beat the increase

shaun_from_Africa

My mistake. it appears that I was wrong.

I knew that you could use postage stamps to pay for the cost of the recorded service, but I thought that to do this you needed to use stamps of a specific value and not the ones marked simply "1st" or "2nd" class.

When doing as suggested and payin the full cost in stamps, does the post office used get any payment for processing the item?

porto_bello

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

When doing as suggested and payin the full cost in stamps, does the post office used get any payment for processing the item?

Not according to my PO - the benefit is at the time of the purchase. They were happy enough to sell me books of 100 2nd class stamps, but now (post-price increase) that I have started to use the stamps, they are moaning that I'm not putting money in their till each time I post something ... they can't have it both ways!

olgadapolga

We did exactly the same, purchased loads of stamps before the price increase and then used them to pay for recorded delivery. Took them to the PO and had such a telling off from the post mistress!

She said that we weren't allowed to use stamps to pay for recorded, that they had to be special stamps, that it messed up their tills, that the number of stamps we'd stuck on the envelope (I think it was six stamps altogether) woud delay the letter getting to its destination, on and on she went. We said, ok, we'll take it elsewhere so she then decided to put them through, cue much huffing, puffing, sighing and hitting the counter (her, not us ).

She was, of course, wrong on all counts. The letters still reached their destination when they should and it didn't mess up their tills.

We now use another post office where they just accept the letters without giving us a hard time. What is it with some post office staff?