Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

NBLondon

libra10 said:

My posting pack for the last week in January has just arrived.  It included incentive stamps for February.

Ditto - I just logged in to post that....

jaybee

My posting pack has also just arrived - but no incentive stamps 

savethepandas

kerri_gt said:

savethepandas said:

Post finally arrived yesterday, posting pack for next week and seven items received to log on the system......

Like buses - none for ages and then all at once

Just got another two this afternoon and another posting pack.

NBLondon

Here's a thought folks...

On 1st February - Royal Mail will be issuing new stamps: http://commonwealthstampsopinion.blogspot.com/2022/01/2208-new-royal-mail-machins-with-barcode.html    (You may have seen the Christmas stamps with barcodes last year).

I'm seeing on other stamp blogs that the larger format of these means that the existing 12x1st book will be replaced by 8x1st.   What will happen when Kantar run out of the old 12x1st red stocks?  If they send us new 8x1st instead that's effectively a pay cut.   The 4x1st will remain available in the new style so we'll presumably be getting two books - an 8 and a 4 - as well as the Large 1st.

Maybe I'll ask Kantar as soon as the new booklets are out....

Primrose

I personally find the Large stamps very difficult to use and would welcome more of the lower denominations.  I send a lot of birthday and Christmas cards! 

Topher

I have a question about the face value of a large first class stamp. It’s simple, “How much is it worth?” However if I look for the answer, I get all kinds of evasively written tables, charts and texts from all sorts of sources. These tell me that the cost of posting a first class large (of varying weights) has gone up to a minimum of £1.29, but not whether or not the stamps (that I already have) will cover that. Even on the Royal Mail site it says “ The price of a First Class stamp will rise by 9p to 85p and the price of a Second Class stamp will increase by 1p to 66p.

Postage for a large First Class letter will increase by 14p to £1.29. While a large Second Class letter will go up by 8p to 96p.” 

To me that states clearly the face values of the actual stamps for 1st and second class, but only what the COST OF POSTING will be for 1st class Large leaving me not knowing how many of the existing stored stamps I have to use for some posting I’m doing. 

I’m guessing that as it will still cost £5.16 to buy a book of four, that they have a face value of £1.04, but can anybody find anywhere that its price is clearly stated?

gt94sss2

Topher said:

I have a question about the face value of a large first class stamp. It’s simple, “How much is it worth?”

To me that states clearly the face values of the actual stamps for 1st and second class, but only what the COST OF POSTING will be for 1st class Large leaving me not knowing how many of the existing stored stamps I have to use for some posting I’m doing. 

Stamps without a specified monetary value are described as Non Value Indicator (NVI) and are typically first and second-class stamps.

NVI stamps are worth the whatever the appropriate postage rate is at the time of posting

Primrose

Yes, the longer you keep them the more valuable they become as obviously the cost/ value of stamps rises and inflationary price increases are implemented.

Money_Grabber13579

Primrose said:

Yes, the longer you keep them the more valuable they become as obviously the cost/ value of stamps rises and inflationary price increases are implemented.

I’ve managed to accumulate quite a collection of stamps over the last couple of years and so far, I’ve been content to hold onto them for this reason. However, I wonder what will happen to the validity of them when the Queen passes on? I’m not trying to be morbid or disrespectful here but given she is 95, it is likely to happen in the not to distant future. I assume the stamps won’t become invalid overnight but will they become invalidated at some point such that hoarding them might not be the sensible thing to do? Any stamps of previous monarchs will obviously now be invalid but whether that was because of their death or the introduction of decimalisation, I don’t know…

kerri_gt

Primrose said:

I personally find the Large stamps very difficult to use and would welcome more of the lower denominations.  I send a lot of birthday and Christmas cards! 

I was actually down to my last large stamp, my posting pack arrived at the weekend with my incentive stamps so personally pleased to get some more large letters. I post a lot of b'day cards too but they mean I don't need to worry about choosing cards with no / slim embellishments, or I use them for the value if I'm posting parcels (although I could just make up the value with the standard letter stamps). For me anyway, I quite like having them.