And Again..

[Thisoldbird]

Royal Mail are putting up their prices from 2nd October

A first class stamp will be going up 15p to £1.25 and there are other increases as well that can all be found on the Royal Mail website

[Canary42]

The Perils of Privatisation.

[-SharonA-]

Gonna get a pigeon!

[gingejbee]

Presumably not offering refunds for those of us who end up collecting their mail from the local delivery office because it's being delivered only two days a week...

[bobbinwales]

Perils of privatisation...maybe. perils of unaffordable pay increases and strikes leading yo lost customers who go elsewhere

[douglas9401]

Email, Whatsapp, Facebook, text message, maybe.

For the odd time when it has to be the post it's not that bad. It will go the way of all things eventually though and then the real bleating can start.

[Buenchico]

[Moderator's note: This thread might have been better posted in 'News' than 'Chatterbank'. Please keep CB clear for more light-hearted posts in general].

If a firm's annual accounts show that it's made a one billion pound loss, it's hardly surprising that it's prices will have to rise:
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/royal-mail-made-ps1-billion-loss-after-cutting-thousands-of-jobs-international-distribution-services-b1081951.html

Royal Mail has seen a massive slump in the number of letters being posted, simply because most people now use email. They're also facing more and more competition in the cut-throat parcels sector from firms like Evri, etc. (If you walk into our local post office, you can choose between the Royal Mail/Parcelforce counter and the UPS one. Both of our local Co-op stores are collection points for Evri, which has a tie-in with eBay, meaning that most eBay sellers probably prefer Evri to Royal Mail for sending their parcels). Royal Mail is further hindered by their current obligation to provide daily deliveries to even the most remote Scottish islands for the same prices that they charge to deliver to London or Birmingham).

My own thinking is that £1.25 is a ridiculously small amount to get a letter from, say, Exeter to Edinburgh and I'm happy to pay it on the very rare occasions that I need to use snail mail these days.

[ToraToraTora]

Haven't bought a stamp for years.

[ladybirder]

Don't you send any birthday cards TTT?

[ToraToraTora]

Moonpig.

[roopower]

Probably partly my fault, I'm sending a lot less cards by post now and cutting back on Christmas cards too. The post was twice the price of cards bought in January. I belong to Jacquie Lawson cards and anyone with an email address gets those. They're beautiful.

[gingejbee]

Chris @14.14...current obligation to provide daily deliveries. So, why doesn't it happen?
Answer from my local delivery office...severe lack of staff, meaning delivery is rationed to twice (or if very lucky, thrice) a week.

[Thisoldbird]

Buenchico

[Moderator's note: This thread might have been better posted in 'News' than 'Chatterbank'. Please keep CB clear for more light-hearted posts in general

Sorry that was me. It's not always clear, to me, where a post might be best placed.

[jno]

twice in a year is a lot. Still, you can always stock up on 1st and 2nd class stamps as before (only with barcodes now): their prices don't go up.