2Nd November - Christmas Is Here

[Canary42]

UK Christmas Stamps will be issued by Royal Mail on the 2nd November.

[retrocop]

I will arrange a remortgage.

[Moorea7]

Think they should be cut-price for Christmas!

[mallyh]

as friends are scattered all over UK it cost me a fortune to post cards so this year i will Email greetings x

[retrocop]

Send an e-mail to Good King Wencezlas. A Czech multi millionaire owns the Royal Mail

[William51]

  It is a good idea to invest in stamps early. Next years diaries are already in my local shop.

[ladybirder]

Probably costs more to post them than the cost of the card.

[Bobbisox1]

I no longer send all my friends cards , I have family in Kent, a 91 year old sister and a few that have moved away, those I will send cards to , from last year me and my friends decided we'd buy a meal for the homeless, another of my friend works tirelessly for a charity called Making Winter Warmer, they open a Methodist hall on Christmas Day and she and others make a Starter,dinner and sweet, also coffee cheese and biscuits and a small gift for the homeless people , the meals are usually £5 , last year I bought 8 , my friends did similar .

[naomi24]

The Christmas card industry must be suffering.  With stamps costing so much now so many people have stopped sending cards to all and sundry.

[ladybirder]

I love to see my Christmas Cards from family and friends decorating my flat.  Some of us are so old now it is a way of letting each other know we are still alive.

[Canary42]

Here are the designs - based on Christmas Carols.

https://ibb.co/5kLvhxP

[Buenchico]

75p to get a card from, say, Exeter to Edinburgh actually seems like remarkably good value to me!

Just a reminder for anyone sending parcels with Royal Mail though . . 
It's often cheaper to have the postie collect the parcel from your home than it is to take it to a post office.  For example, a 'small parcel', weighing up to 2kg, costs £4.19 (1st class) or £3.49 (2nd class) to send from a post office but only £3.69 or £2.99 respectively if you have it collected, saving you 50p on every parcel which you send.