Postage price increases

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  1. alex-adam

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    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


    a-a


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

    a-a
     
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    gcc3663 Knackered Grandad trying to keep up with a 4yr old

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


    2nd class unfranked stamps | eBay
     
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    Blimey a 19p increase for second class what a rip off. How much is First Class going up by? I can't find any info on the web about this.
     
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    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.
     
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    ooops sorry missed the link alex.

    It says there will be "no limit on the price of First Class stamps" that can't be allowed shurely :nono:

    All the post office will do is end up driving away more customers, and new companies will step in with hopefully better services.

    I used to use City Link instead of Royal Mail for parcels when I was into ebaying, now-a-days there is this service which is even better and cheaper:
    Collect+ Courier Services

    But thats no good for small low priced items.
     
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    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.........
     
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      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)
       
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