Superdrug 5% off stamps from 7 February

withabix

Dustangle wrote: »

Still a bargain for what we get, and you don't need to go to a PO to buy stamps.

I think you missed the irony there...

How can they justify putting the prices up by large multiples of inflation whilst reducing the level of service? They are still a government service/agency, so shouldn't be trying to make a profit on operations.

misterthrifty

Also see this previous post about additional savings you can make when buying postage online, move quickly though!
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=725385&highlight=stamps

VortexSteve

They are still a government service

While they receive funding from the government, Post Office Ltd is certainly a company and not a government owned service.

cruella_de_vile

withabix wrote: »

I think you missed the irony there...

How can they justify putting the prices up by large multiples of inflation whilst reducing the level of service? They are still a government service/agency, so shouldn't be trying to make a profit on operations.

It is a business and does need to make a profit, even more so since the postal service was opened up to competition.

Thanks for the heads up with the stamps :beer:

Old_Gold

withabix wrote: »

I think you missed the irony there...

How can they justify putting the prices up by large multiples of inflation whilst reducing the level of service? They are still a government service/agency, so shouldn't be trying to make a profit on operations.

Maybe the irony is that some people believe that for the last ten years we have had a Labour government.

mrs_lds

can you buy stamps from boots with points and can you legally buy stamps off ebay

thanks?

misterthrifty

It is legal to buy stamps on ebay but beware, I bought a sheet of 1st class self adhesive stamps a few months ago. The seller sold quite a few lots then they were thrown off ebay and the PO wrote to all buyers saying the stamps were forged and should be sent in for destruction! Since then I have only bought off online stamp dealers. The other advantage of this is that the stamps they sell were bought by collectors from a Post Office when they are first issued and then resold to dealers.

Mr T

Mr T

withabix

VortexSteve wrote: »

While they receive funding from the government, Post Office Ltd is certainly a company and not a government owned service.

The Government owns 100% of the shares in Royal Mail Holdings plc (which in turn owns 100% of Post Office Ltd, Parcelforce and Royal Mail). The Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform owns 50,004 ordinary shares plus 1 special share and the Treasury Solicitor owns 1 ordinary share.

So how's that NOT a government owned service then?

finnieston

probably even robert mugabe could make a better fist of running the post office than these clowns.

As has been said before; a random selection of your neighbour's mail sometime after two.

27p to send a letter! Criminal.

super_dad

a little off topic, for which i apologise (well, i don't really... but the gesture was there.)

If you ever get bored in the next couple of weeks then get 2 envelopes and write your name/address on them. Put a first class stamp on one and a second class on the other. then post.

Let me know if they arrive on different days, because when I used to get bored at work I did that a number of times, and they always turned up at the same time. I don't think there is a first and second class in todays royal mail.

In the good old days your post would arrive at the crack of dawn and a second delivery (second class) much later in the day. Now we just have one "service" late in the day and I'm pretty sure that Royal mail have given up on the whole 1st and 2nd class thing. My experiment at work appears to suggest they have.

just a thought....