Royal Mail,postage increase

[sowhat 1,572]

Royal Mail faces a mass exodus of angry customers as the price of a first class stamp soars by more than a third to 60p from today.

A first class stamp is going up 14p – the biggest single jump in the 172 history of the organisation.

Separately, the price of a second class stamp will also go up by 14p to 50p – a 39per cent rise

 

 

 

 

What is this country coming too?

I'm afraid I won't be sending as many Christmas cards this year!

[Malt 379]

Not really that surprised, it'll go some way to making the books look more presentable when they finally sell the post office off to a foreign company/government..

[scothunter 12,609]

I would think that be thier demise. I mean who actually sends mail these days. It's all done instantly these days with the click of a button.

[Simonrees 45]

Come on you can't blame them, look at the price of Fuel these days. Personally I still think its cheap. How much would it cost to drive there and hand deliver it!! and as has been pointed out with more and more things being sent by email these days, they still have to keep staff levels up to cope with the level of mail they deal with. I don't begrudge them the increase to be honest.

[Malt 379]

Come on you can't blame them, look at the price of Fuel these days. Personally I still think its cheap. How much would it cost to drive there and hand deliver it!! and as has been pointed out with more and more things being sent by email these days, they still have to keep staff levels up to cope with the level of mail they deal with. I don't begrudge them the increase to be honest.

 

That's besides the point, Royal mail is a publicly owned company so owned and paid for by the government. The cost of a postage stamp is meant to be nothing more than a small, token payment for something that's already been paid for with your taxes. We already pay way more than a postage stamp price for each letter sent, even if you don't send any yourself.. It's just another tax increase, where do you think the money will go?

[scothunter 12,609]

Oh I wouldn't care one way or the other, I mean 60p isn't a lot really. I'm thinking of the big company's that use royal mail. In these times loyalty means very little. Every penny counts to these company's and they will go elsewhere if it saves a buck. I'm pretty sure the ordinary joe bloggs don't care. Mind you that might change around Xmas lol yay even less cards to clutter my house

[scothunter 12,609]

Oh I never knew it was owned by the state mate. In that case greedy b*****ds lol

I remember as a kid the state owned quite a lot. Didn't bt belong to us at one time?

[Malt 379]

Oh I never knew it was owned by the state mate. In that case greedy b*****ds lol

I remember as a kid the state owned quite a lot. Didn't bt belong to us at one time?

 

Yes mate, BT was part of the post office until it was split and sold off..

[scothunter 12,609]

I remember the wee mini vans think they were yellow lol the bigger van had sliding doors . Prob Sherpas like the ones the cops had. Got thrown around in the back of them many time.

[scothunter 12,609]

In fact they weren't mini vans , can't remember what they were but made by British leyland and defo yellow lol

[poacher3161 1,766]

Same old story every thing going up bar wages funny how the number of rich billionaires in this country have got even richer in the last four years.

[Malt 379]

In fact they weren't mini vans , can't remember what they were but made by British leyland and defo yellow lol

 

They were maestro vans I think pal. They were yellow saying British Telecom on them, then they all got sprayed grey IIRC!

[Malt 379]

In fact they weren't mini vans , can't remember what they were but made by British leyland and defo yellow lol

 

They were maestro vans I think pal. They were yellow saying British Telecom on them, then they all got sprayed grey IIRC!

 

like this?

 

[scothunter 12,609]

Watched a thing about Cameron dell, he is loaded Abd his wife is even richer folk like that cant make decisions that can drastically affect someone's life, when they haven't a clue about how ordinary folk live.

Remember years ago at a management meeting about weekly to monthly pay.

One guy said something about power cards.

"WHAT'S A POWER CARD" was the managements response lol

[scothunter 12,609]

That's the ones malt , but there was an earlier one.square van wee thing double doors at the back. Lol British key land in away to look haha