New postal rates

[DannyRoberts]

Most people will be aware of the huge increase in the cost of 1st and 2nd class postage from the 30th April.

However one thing that the Post Office have kept quiet about is the extraordinary increases in the cost of sending things overseas.

http://c435158.r58.cf3.rackcdn.com/Royal_Mail_Our_Prices.pdf

A small single programme to Europe which used to cost around £1.50 to send will now cost £2.93 if the package weighs 101 grams or more.

Outrageous.

[Wullie]

it is a massive leap i agree, but you are paying no more now than the europeans have been paying for years. It has just brought us in line what others countries charge( in fact it is still cheaper than Germany,France and Italy). We are all euorpeans now you know

[Kickoff3pm]

Wullie wrote:

it is a massive leap i agree, but you are paying no more now than the europeans have been paying for years. It has just brought us in line what others countries charge( in fact it is still cheaper than Germany,France and Italy). We are all euorpeans now you know

Sorry chap but you sound like a tory mp, those people always quote what things are like overseas but as far as I'm concerned just like the all the illegalities British tax payers have poured money in and made these things what they are. It's the British tax payers who should get the benefit not the rich who will be egger to snap up RM shares in a few years.

Just look at the water companies, given away to private sector, bought by foreigners and now don't have the money to maintain us in a proper supply. You can already see this happening also in gas and soon it will be the same in electric.

RM will be raped and then sold off and by then it'll be cheaper to send your letters by boat.

[mark01]

I agree that these increases are steep - but if the costs had been introduced progressively over the years as other basic items we would not be in this position now.

At the end of the day 50p or 60p to post a letter, still aint bad value at the end of the day.

regards, ex-postie, Mark

[Wullie]

mark01 wrote:

I agree that these increases are steep - but if the costs had been introduced progressively over the years as other basic items we would not be in this position now. At the end of the day 50p or 60p to post a letter, still aint bad value at the end of the day. regards, ex-postie, Mark

Exactly, Royal Mail was not allowed to increase their stamps in line with inflation by the stupid UK postal regulator Postcomm. They had their hands tied whilst the competitors took the cream of the business. Now reality has sunk in. Pay for the service or there will be no service. To be honest, the mail was so cheap i mean people got so used to it. They paid £1.50 for a loaf of bread and thought nothing of it, but expect to send a letter half way across Europe for 20p.

[mark01]

Rock on wullie, when I was in my late teens riding round the streets of Bristol on my Lambretta 175 sx, these were the going rates for my basic needs, petrol 10p a litre, pint of bitter 15p, fags 30p for 20.

1st class stamp in them days was 6p - 10 times that is now the 1st class rate.

Now times my other essentials by 10! Get my drift!



regards, Mark

[Wullie]

The Royal Mail are the only postal service in Europe that deliver on a Saturday. In some countries they refuse to deliver packets at all and they must be picked up from a office. The fuel costs in the UK are the highest and the postal costs the lowest. But people love to have a moan, so why spoil their fun.

[martino]

Deliver on a Saturday??

During the week my postman - a very, nice, friendly guy appears around 1130. On a Saturday he appears around 0930 and usually does not have more than a couple of letters to deliver to my entire road - 15 houses!

I do not think it will be long before Saturday deliveries are cancelled, especially in the rural areas.

He used to do his deliveries on a bike but the Royal Mail recently gave him a van. He now says his round takes half an hour longer as he has to start and stop the van, lock it, deliver etc and he is not getting as much exercise!

[Senior82]

I really don't know why people are moaning. I don't particularly want to pay any more, but if the prices don't go up then Royal Mail will go bankrupt.

[Auchinleckian]

For a very small rural village, of some 2,000 inhabitants, we are extremely well blessed with a very good postal service. I usually get my mail between 7.30am and 8.30am unless there's a major problem.
All the posties know me personally, and some even joke that I keep them in business with the amount of stuff delivered to my door! Absolutely no problem with this service, and I realise that it has to be paid for, even though the recent hikes have obviously hit home with lots of people, although the ebay sellers won't be out of pocket as it's not them who actually pay for postage.
You'll moan more when it's privatised, believe me - but perhaps now is the time for people to get off their fat arses and actually do something about what's going on this country at the moment. We're being shafted by a group of privately educated posh boys who are carrying out a gross class experiment in this country. If you know somebody who is being hit with tax credit cuts, benefit cuts, disability cuts, etc consider this - the worst is yet to come, by a long, long, way. If you do nothing else this year use your vote on Thursday to vote anybody bar Conservative, the message has to go out there that we aren't going to put up with being shafted so your alreadly grossly rich friends in the City can get even richer.

[sharrowblade]

Auchinleckian wrote:

You'll moan more when it's privatised, believe me - but perhaps now is the time for people to get off their fat arses and actually do something about what's going on this country at the moment. We're being shafted by a group of privately educated posh boys who are carrying out a gross class experiment in this country. If you know somebody who is being hit with tax credit cuts, benefit cuts, disability cuts, etc consider this - the worst is yet to come, by a long, long, way. If you do nothing else this year use your vote on Thursday to vote anybody bar Conservative, the message has to go out there that we aren't going to put up with being shafted so your alreadly grossly rich friends in the City can get even richer.

Aye, you're probably right John, but you appear to have forgotten that we've been shafted for years by Champagne Socialists.
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[Auchinleckian]

To be fair, the term champagne socialist was termed b y the right wing media. To get such a name would imply that at some stage in their god forsaken lives, Blair, Mandelson and their ilk would have to have been socialists - when nothing is further from the truth. I hate what they did to the party I used to love, and be a very active member of for many years. I still strongly believe in Clause 4 and the ownership of the means of production for the people who produce the wealth. I actually think that the current austerity measures, induced by this government and nobody else, may actually consign them to the dustbin of history, and that some form of proper consensual politics will emerge. I live in hope......

[Tynie Topics]

Auchinleckian wrote:

perhaps now is the time for people to get off their fat arses and actually do something about what's going on this country at the moment.

Well, in a couple of years time we'll have the opportunity in Scotland to vote for real change for the mutual benefit of all

(and we can have Rabbie Burns and Robert The Bruce on our stamps!)
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[Auchinleckian]

I'll be manning the border outpost with you! It's the stuff of dreams isn't it? A REAL Tory free zone.

[BAZZABAGGIES]

I have been caught out, sending a current season Wolves programme to World Zone 2 cost me £5.70.. I only bargained on £2.50.

[Wullie]

Auchinleckian wrote:

I'll be manning the border outpost with you! It's the stuff of dreams isn't it? A REAL Tory free zone.

Sounds great John, only how can we send our billions of pounds of taxes to keep up your lavish lifestyles....?

Ouch! in the post i guess

[Auchinleckian]

Wullie wrote:

Auchinleckian wrote: I'll be manning the border outpost with you! It's the stuff of dreams isn't it? A REAL Tory free zone. Sounds great John, only how can we send our billions of pounds of taxes to keep up your lavish lifestyles....? Ouch! in the post i guess

Wullie, I didn't have you as a Sun reader?

[Wullie]

Auchinleckian wrote:

Wullie wrote: Auchinleckian wrote: I'll be manning the border outpost with you! It's the stuff of dreams isn't it? A REAL Tory free zone. Sounds great John, only how can we send our billions of pounds of taxes to keep up your lavish lifestyles....? Ouch! in the post i guess Wullie, I didn't have you as a Sun reader?

Not me old chum, i don't read newpapers only wrap my chips in them. No i'm not prejudiced at all, even against you blokes that wear skirts

[Senior82]

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Auchinleckian wrote:

(and we can have Rabbie Burns and Robert The Bruce on our stamps!)

Hopefully...I wouldn't want to order anything from Scotland if it has President Salmond's mug on it!