Royal Mail Stamp Price Increase
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I was reading about this on the moneysavingexpert website. The prices of the standard and large first class stamp is increasing by about 15% next month. The standard 2nd class stamp will remain the same but the large 2nd class will be going up.
Also you still have time to trade in your old stamps (without the barcodes)
www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/09/royal-mail-stamps-price-change/
Half the time the cost of the stamp is more than the cost of the card. Its getting ridiculous
I had seen that and I always have a few stamps at the ready but hardly ever use any now, just a few Christmas cards.
Nadiaparveen - I brought £76.00 worth of stamps (not all at once) eleven years ago pre-Olympic games. Mainly from Superdrug who were doing a 5% discount off a 4 large stamps booklet (I think 12 first class stamps booklet too) promotion. I got my money's worth eleven years later. My swapped out was valued at more than £70 for the new bar coded stamps.
I really don't think Royal mail are helping themselves. Stamps are so expensive now it puts me off sending anything.
Royal Mail has been ripping us off for years. They are unreliable, things get lost, and they never ever deliver on time. The service they provide Is crap.
Emerge11 ,totally agree with you,daughter turns 25 on Saturday & I usually have a steady flow of Birthday cards from family & friends through our door the week leading up to her big day, this year had one solitary birthday card!!
Other year her Da's birthday cards & money from his brother & 3 sisters in Northern Ireland went missing in the post!. I only found out when his sister sent our daughter a BROWN envelope with a birthday card in a white envelope & £20 in with a note saying Sent your birthday money like this as your Dad's went missing,
I went up to the sorting office to see if the birthday cards were there on my way from work as I pass it on my way home, no joy!
My house gets missing hospital/bills and other important letters sometimes, too. It's worse when our usual postman isn't here, literally all our post/parcels go missing - probably to a side road nearby that has the same house number. I lost a few signed parcels that way, that I couldn't get back a few yrs ago. We've complained so many times over the yrs but I don't think they really do much.
janphoenix51 they are completely useless and they don’t care. Where today with technology they still can’t find missing parcels or letters. Royal Mail, what’s so Royal about It. The worse thing this country did was to Privatise. Back in the day I remember the post used to be at my parents house about 06:30 - 07:00. Now it’s like 13.00 - 14:00. We’ll it is where I live. Ridiculous.
hky they don’t care. My local postman has been looking for another job for ages now. He hates his job. They put more on you he told me and he has been doing this job for the past 20 odd years. I have had lots of missing letters/parcels too. I have a parcel as we speak sitting in the distribution centre since sep 2nd ready for my local delivery office. It was 24 hr tracked too. Nothing has budged on the tracking system too so what it is doing. Completely useless Royal Mail. Nothing Royal about them.
Emerge11 ...On Monday 25th Sept I posted 3 birthday cards in an envelope from Sheffield,South Yorkshire to Portadown, 26 miles from Belfast, Northern Ireland,one for 4 year old great niece birthday on 26th & 2 for my partner 's sister ,her Granny who's birthday is 27th..
I got them weighed & sent then first class in the 4.45pm post...
I got a message the following day 26th September at 9.30am thanking me & saying that the cards had arrived, that's less than 17 hours from Sheffield to Portadown so on this occasion Royal Mail delivered on time.
It cost me £2.25 but I got £1.50 of that back as I paid on my Cash Card & get Double Round Ups on my Account which goes into my Savings Account, it means that I got money back as any spend over pounds I get the remainder back ,so spent 25p over so got 75p x2 back!
This is a Royal Bank Of Scotland Account,Nat West also do this..
janphoenix51 You must be the lucky one because I ordered several things from Ebay and they arrived 3-4 weeks later after an estimated 3-4 day delivery. I then bought something from Etsy. It was sent from Leicester. I had a tracking number so It got delivered to Bristol sorting office then three days later It was delivered to the sorting office. Yes the sorting office, then It finally got lost In that sorting office. I dont even live In Bristol. I had a refund from etsy but that Is besides the point. It was In their facility for 10 days. They made It up about delivering because they knew they lost It. The Chuckle Brothers could of done a better job. Royal Mail ? What a load of tosh they are. Nothing Royal about them.
12 Sep, 2023 15:57 Bristol MC Delivered by
02 Sep, 2023 03:51 Bristol MC Item Received
01 Sep, 2023 18:57 South Midlands MC Item Received
31 Aug, 2023 14:15 Leicester North DO Item Collected
31 Aug, 2023 02:10 Sender despatching item
Emerge11 ...I KNOW Snail Mail as I dubbed them are a joke as I have stated on here in the past but on this ONE occasion they actually delivered the service they are supposed to provide..
Your story is disgusting, you are paying for a service,I hope that you get better deliveries next time if there is a next time!
I send Christmas cards to partners family ,a lot who have moved back to Portadown/ Craigavon/ Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland..
I write them all out,put them in a big brown envelope, SEAL it with cellotape then take the parcel to be weighed & send to a family member in Northern Ireland ...It saves me a lot of money in postage..
I belong to Mailgents, a company where you help them by posting and receiving letters and parcels to see how well the system is working. In return they send you stamps, so I never need to buy any.
I am very lucky, I joined a Mailagents scheme that was posted on here, just come to the end of my 6 month stint, do surveys and tasks, they sent me 18 stamps each month and I have enough points for a £25 Tesco voucher, on a 6 month imposed rest period now, but got enough stamps to last me a good good while,it was really easy, wud recommend it to anyone
RM has become as bad as food retailers for ripping off the public. Recently my son paid over £6 to have a letter sent recorded/registered (not sure which) for next day delivery. It took two weeks! He also said his postman said he will only be delivering on Saturday from now on...really?! I read they were stopping Saturday deliveries.
My grandson got a parking ticket which as you know goes up if you don't pay within 14 days. He received it 17 days after it was dated.
I doubt I’ll send many Christmas cards after the latest price increase. In fact my children only send their grandmother a birthday cards if I give them a stamp 
I stopped using royal mail a while , it had gotten too expensive to send packages...
I only post a few items now. Most of the time I either use electronic or hand deliver where possible.
While on holiday, I posted my Niece's birthday card from Portugal to Sheffield on 17th August,it cost me two Euros & I was told by the shop owner would take a few days,she messaged me last week with a photo of the pink envelope saying this must be a record,only took around SIX weeks!!
My sister that niece's mum, ordered a card for someone she worked with on 31st Aug & it came on 30th Sept,this was under a mile & half away in Sheffield using Royal Mail!!
Royal Mail market was always going to shrink so price rises are a certainty up to the point when the postal load hits a low plateau but then with the competition couriers it may become no longer viable.... that would be strange
it’s getting so so expensive isn’t it. When is it all going to stop
Can someone please inform me as to why it takes two Royal Mail employees and a van to deliver an A4
envelope because that's why stamps are this price.
I had a 15kg case of fish delivered from Penzance Cornwall to Milton Keyne same day for £12.00 and by
one person courier so you can see the Royal Mail is on a downward spiral.
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