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Stamp Prices To Rise By 1P From End Of March
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There are different ways of comparing postal rates. Obviously one could choose to simply use the current exchange rates but some might suggest that it would be better to look at the price of a stamp as a percentage of the daily average wage in a particular country.
This US source use the simple exchange rate system:
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(Click the right-hand column header to rank prices in ascending order).
This 2012 BBC article uses 'relative purchasing power', pointing out that to post a letter within in Peru costs over half a day's pay for one-third of the population:
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There are different ways of comparing postal rates. Obviously one could choose to simply use the current exchange rates but some might suggest that it would be better to look at the price of a stamp as a percentage of the daily average wage in a particular country.
This US source use the simple exchange rate system:
http://
(Click the right-hand column header to rank prices in ascending order).
This 2012 BBC article uses 'relative purchasing power', pointing out that to post a letter within in Peru costs over half a day's pay for one-third of the population:
http://
^^^ Strictly speaking, JD33, the lower postal rates only applied to greetings cards with no more than five (or was it six or seven?) words of greeting.
You had to send birthday cards (etc) unsealed, so that Royal Mail could (theoretically) check that you'd only written (say) "Happy Birthday, David, from Grannie", rather than enclosing a full letter.
Similarly, postcards were only meant to be charged at the lower rate when one wrote "Wish you were here", rather than details of how the holiday was going.
In practice though, the rule was universally interpreted as 'postcards and unsealed letters get the lower rate, whereas sealed letters pay the higher rate'.
You had to send birthday cards (etc) unsealed, so that Royal Mail could (theoretically) check that you'd only written (say) "Happy Birthday, David, from Grannie", rather than enclosing a full letter.
Similarly, postcards were only meant to be charged at the lower rate when one wrote "Wish you were here", rather than details of how the holiday was going.
In practice though, the rule was universally interpreted as 'postcards and unsealed letters get the lower rate, whereas sealed letters pay the higher rate'.
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