Postage price increases

I read with astonishment and dismay that the Royal Mail intends to increase the price of a 2nd class stamp from the current 36p to 55p from April.

Surely this is something the government must intervene to stop as this outrageous price-hike bears no relation to the present rate of inflation and will hit hard pressed small businesses, and those people, dare I say mainly the older generation, who still rely on post as their usual means of communiction.

Write to your MP today and demand that the increase is kept in line with the general RPI/CPI


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See this link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/search/?queryText=stockpile+stamps&Search

and this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ile-stamps-now-Royal-Mail-customers-told.html

 

WHAAAAT? That's outrageous! That's going to impact on almost everything business-wise.

However, upon researching it, the only increase I could find mentioned is this on the Royal Mail site

Mind you - I am still wading my way through the £100 worth of stamps I bought just before the last rise!

 

Daisees, I urge you to write to your MP without delay. - this price increase will affect everyone - the Government must be pressed to act !!!!

 

That item on the Royal Mail website refers to the increases that took effect in April 2011 - Please see the articles in the Daily Telegraph on the attached link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/search/?queryText=stockpile+stamps&Search=


Also this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ile-stamps-now-Royal-Mail-customers-told.html

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I seem to remember a couple of years ago Royal Mail blamed the increase in Email for the increase in Postal Charges.
I wonder what the effect will be this time - surely not MORE people using email?

 

From The Telegraph:

If these increases go ahead, there's such a huge potential saving/profit to be made by stockpiling stamps before the increase in early April, it makes me wonder whether there will be shortages of 2nd Class stamps in the run up to the price increase (how long before they're on ebay?) and if RM will time limit the use of stamps bought prior to the increase, making them worth only 36p again after some 'reasonable period'.

 

Scrungee, I'm not suggesting you go down that route, but look at the link:


2nd class unfranked stamps | eBay

 

Yes, GCC you are right, but not everyone has access to email, especially the elderly (no offence intended to Silver Surfuers, of which I am one), but also small businesses etc., I agree that RM are digging a hole for themselves, but surely the % increase must be set against the general eccononic climate.

 

John, look at my links to The Telegraph

Repeated, : Stock-pile stamps now, Royal Mail customers told - Telegraph

Of course I have a vested interest - how can I continue to sell my little labels with 'free postage' ..?

eBay - The UK's Online Marketplace

 

This is madness! Thanks Dai.

Read about my experience here...........

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/non-gardening-discussion/40274-uk-postal-rate-madness.html

 

If a business sends out 100 letters 2nd class a day, that is an extra £19. Making £95 a week or nearly five grand a year!
Might make them think about all the junk mail though.........

 

I think it would be an incentive to switched to franked mail no? I shall ask my dad when I get a chance how the stamp price will effect franked mail as he's an Engineer for Neopost (Neopost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)