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| | | Author: | Stuart9  | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2024 12:17 | | Subject: | Royal Mail stamps up again | | Viewed: | 128 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Prices for letters up again in April.
Justification : costs and less mail.
My guess is that part of the reason for less mail is, you guessed it, the fact
that the price keeps going up. 
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2024 12:42 | | Subject: | Re: Royal Mail stamps up again | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stuart9 writes:
| | Prices for letters up again in April.
Justification : costs and less mail.
My guess is that part of the reason for less mail is, you guessed it, the fact
that the price keeps going up.
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I imagine the reason for less mail is that people don't need it these days.
Email is instant (almost) and free (almost) and much more convenient. Even if
they kept the price of a stamp the same, or reduced it, I doubt that many
people would go back to sending letters in anything like the volumes they did
20 years ago.
Parcels is where the business is these days, which is why RM need to remain competitive
with the couriers, both for price and service.
The universal service imposed on the RM, delivering to people in remote areas
for the same cost, is also to blame.
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| | | | | Author: | GranthamBricks | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2024 12:53 | | Subject: | Re: Royal Mail stamps up again | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stuart9 writes:
| | Prices for letters up again in April.
Justification : costs and less mail.
My guess is that part of the reason for less mail is, you guessed it, the fact
that the price keeps going up.
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Now I might be wrong (and please correct me if I am) but for a small section
it is actually going down...
2nd class large letter 100-250g currently £2.40, will change to £2.10
2nd class large letter 250-500g currently 2.70, will change to £2.50
I hope I understood that part correctly at least
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| | | | | Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2024 13:05 | | Subject: | Re: Royal Mail stamps up again | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stuart9 writes:
| | Prices for letters up again in April.
Justification : costs and less mail.
My guess is that part of the reason for less mail is, you guessed it, the fact
that the price keeps going up.
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Here in Canada postage is going up 10 cents in May
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| | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2024 14:00 | | Subject: | Re: Royal Mail stamps up again | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stuart9 writes:
| | Prices for letters up again in April.
Justification : costs and less mail.
My guess is that part of the reason for less mail is, you guessed it, the fact
that the price keeps going up.
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Come-on guys...
Name one thing that's currently moving down, not up in price? It's a
moment to make some adjustments in expectations, in order to better move forward
within the game we're all playing.
Or maybe wait for those posts announcing price reductions (excluding sales
events of course )
No matter, opportunity lies everywhere and in all directions
-popsicle
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| | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 2, 2024 05:11 | | Subject: | Re: Royal Mail stamps up again | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stuart9 writes:
| | Prices for letters up again in April.
Justification : costs and less mail.
My guess is that part of the reason for less mail is, you guessed it, the fact
that the price keeps going up.
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Well that's the thing as the Royal Mail keep saying their processing system
is only really designed for high volumes and that todays lower volumes make the
processing of letters unviable but judging by the recent Panorama program (Well
worth a catch up if you missed it) I would say it appears more to do with their
overall neglection and discouragement of Letters due to them becoming so fixated
with the higher profitability that comes with shipping parcels. The burden/commitment
of processing high volumes of letters appears to be a thorn in their side when
it comes to wanting to scale the more profitable parcel side of the business.
The unfair part is that many people are unknowingly paying extra for 1st class
Letter service yet many of these letters are more often than not getting processed
at exactly the same time scale as 2nd class in fact worse still most letters
in general are being held back in order to give priority to increased parcel
volumes with my posties advising me not to even bother wasting my money sending
1st class.
It's already looking likely that there will soon only be one Letter and one
Large Letter service with 1st/2nd essentially being merged into one!
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