Royal Mail to increase stamp prices again – but you can beat the hikes

kerri_gt

The stamps are now costing more than the cards to send at Xmas, will stop bothering at all soon.

anotheruser

To be fair on Royal Mail, at least they are telling people beforehand.
I may pick up a few books of stamps. I wish I would have picked up more from the last time!

Pincher

Things haven't really changed that much. The price of a first class stamp was about that of a LB of bananas 40 years ago. It still is.

TighterThanTwoCoatsOfPain

What pointless advice... If I send 2 letters week, with and extra 10 at Christmas I can save a whopping £3.50 ish! (And I probably only send 10 letters in year in reality)

MSE - Stick to the mortgage type advise, this is pointless money saving.

You'll be recommending sharing a king pit noodle rather than 2 individual ones next!

m5rcc

RFW wrote: »

It does seem odd advice. Even if you send 1000 Christmas cards the most you're saving is £30 and you have to invest £500 in stamps. With the weather we've been having they'll probably end up water damaged by Christmas;)

But the value will never drop and in 2012 the value jumped 30%. It's increased almost 9% year-on-year since 2002, so a sound investment...given they have a resale value

vekma

10kg special delivery £26.60 ?

are they having a laugh ?

womblekelly

Costco sells stamps at discounted rate all year round ....

Pincher

Somebody told me he bought hundreds from Costco about five years ago. He does have a business, so went through a lot of stamps. Several thousand pounds worth. Saved a bundle.

Me, bought about 50 stamps, about 40 left after five years.

custardy

vekma wrote: »

10kg special delivery £26.60 ?

are they having a laugh ?

You miss the point. RMs network has a capacity.it isnt geared for large/heavy packets at this point.so they use pricing to limit that sector.

molerat

Pincher wrote: »

Things haven't really changed that much. The price of a first class stamp was about that of a LB of bananas 40 years ago. It still is.

Where do you buy your bananas from ? 1lb costs me 31p, half the price of a first class stamp.