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Royal Mail Price Increases From 30th March

goodfella66
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Here is the PDF link for the Royal Mail Price increases from 30th March.

http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Royal-Mail-UK-and-international-parcel-and-letter-prices-30-March-2015.pdf


International seems to have gone up by quite a bit! :(
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  • ballisticbrian
    ballisticbrian Posts: 4,002 Forumite
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    Wow, thank you for posting this. The introduction of Large Letters to international post is a good one for me and I anticipated it would happen after watching all the post office staff measuring airmail this year.
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  • Grimbal
    Grimbal Posts: 2,334 Forumite
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    goodfella66 wrote: »


    International seems to have gone up by quite a bit! :(


    It does! LL to be seems almost the price of small parcel now. There's also quite a large price jump for intnl LL from under to over 100g :(
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  • goodfella66
    goodfella66 Posts: 403 Forumite
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    ballisticbrian wrote: »
    Wow, thank you for posting this. The introduction of Large Letters to international post is a good one for me and I anticipated it would happen after watching all the post office staff measuring airmail this year.

    Large Letter International is a lot cheaper if under 100g but appears to be about the same as now if over 100g.
  • molerat
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    edited 3 March 2015 at 5:19PM
    Nice to see the £2.80 2SP is staying up to 2Kg / exception size and they are moving that idea across to 2MP up to 2Kg and reducing the price to £4.89 from £5.20/1Kg & £8.00/2Kg.
  • Mayday
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    http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Royal-Mail-UK-and-international-parcel-and-letter-prices-30-March-2015.pdf

    in short:

    The price of a 1st Class stamp will increase by 1p to 63p

    The price of a 2nd Class stamp will increase by 1p to 54p

    The price of a 1st Class Large Letter stamp will rise to 95p and a 2nd Class Large Letter to 74p.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31660724

    Also note there is now International LL rate :(
  • martindow
    martindow Posts: 10,628 Forumite
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    There is a thread with replies already running

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5185702

    Perhaps the board guides could combine these.
  • soolin
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    Merged for clarity.
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  • RFW
    RFW Posts: 10,432 Forumite
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    I think the only bad advice I've ever seen on this site is to buy stamps now to save money for Christmas. If you send 10,000 Christmas cards you could spend £5,300 now and not £5,400 in December. You can use the extra £100 to pay for insurance on all those stamps you've got;)
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  • Contains_Mild_Peril
    Contains_Mild_Peril Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Yeah, not really worth doing when the increase is only 1p, but some years they've had much steeper increases which would have made stockpiling stamps a wise move.
  • Kernow666
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    Contains_Mild_Peril wrote: »
    Yeah, not really worth doing when the increase is only 1p, but some years they've had much steeper increases which would have made stockpiling stamps a wise move.

    stockpiling stamps to save money :rotfl:
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