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

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  • kerri_gt
    kerri_gt Posts: 11,202 Forumite
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    The stamps are now costing more than the cards to send at Xmas, will stop bothering at all soon.
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  • anotheruser
    anotheruser Posts: 3,485 Forumite
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    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
    Pincher Posts: 6,552 Forumite
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    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
    TighterThanTwoCoatsOfPain Posts: 860 Forumite
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    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
    m5rcc Posts: 1,544 Forumite
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    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
    vekma Posts: 9,837 Forumite
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    10kg special delivery £26.60 ?

    are they having a laugh ?
  • womblekelly
    womblekelly Posts: 7 Forumite
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    Costco sells stamps at discounted rate all year round ....
  • Pincher
    Pincher Posts: 6,552 Forumite
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    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
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    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
    molerat Posts: 31,854 Forumite
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    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.
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