Postage costs going up again..

[*artsbanquet*]

Not until April but why twice every year

story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6190171.stm

So true. If they want to raise the prices, so be it. But can't they stick with the prices once they've changed them? (For at least 2 years?)

[royalmailchat]

Why do they keep putting the price up?

So they can pay their employees bonuses and cars for not going sick and actually turning up to work. Never mind that they get paid when they are there.

lol as far as i'm aware that's finished

[ChrisJane]

They have done large letter stamps in 1st class - cos I've been buying them for ages - they are a bit bigger than normal 1st class stamps - but are gold the same and have large written on them

[royalmailchat]

Every thing in RM is a rip off.
How can a business that made 5-6 hundred Million in one year
suddenly within not even 2 years make losses of 5-6 hundred Million.
Then supposedly lose 30,000 Postmans jobs (yeah right)and then everything is ok again.
We are buiser than ever,even during the supposedly mass loss making times.
Our union proved that RM cooked the books.

The whole shabang is a farce.
Goverment owned you know!!!!!!

[seaemelle]

Royal Mail website link for new postal rates from 2 April 2007

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/c...diaId=41500683

[lofty100e]

Another usefull site is www.postwatch.co.uk

[hollandnumerics]

The only stamps worth getting a few in are the first and second letter stamps.
They have been clever in not doing stamps for the large letter and packet price bands , with them you have to make the ammount up e.g no 55p stamp have to use 2 stamps with price on them.
The dirty rotten ######## .

You can use as many 1st or 2nd class stamps together as you want, including to Europe, and they are worth their current value, so, at the moment, 55p = 1 x 1st letter (32p) + 1 x 2nd letter (23p). If you can't match the total exactly, then you'll need to buy some small value price stamps, but you'll still save!

..........hollandnumerics