Since when have stamps cost so much money!! I had no idea.

[sandyballs]

Can't remember the last time I posted a letter or a card but I've just been charged 7.20 for 12 1st class stamps

Or am I just getting old.

They went up by 16p earlier in the year. I bought 100 just before but I have used them up now.

Could you go all way around the uk for less?

I spent £72 posting cards & parcels today, next year everyone is getting e-vouchers from amazon. It's shocking when you post a huge amount in a one-er.

Yes the cost is truly shocking. That's why I bought my Christmas stamps back in the Spring, before the prices went up. Will have to cut back drastically on cards next year, or send tacky e-cards.

I bought a book of 2nd class stamps on Monday, £6, put it in the side of my wallet, did some other shopping, got home, did some other jobs then went to find the stamps for my christmas cards. No sign. Spent the next hour looking in every place, wallet, shopping bags etc then thought I might have thrown them out with the recycling so went out in the dark with a manky torch to sift through the papers and cardboard. No luck. Could not sleep for the waste of £6 - stupid I know but I was so CROSS. And our post does not come until about 2pm and rarely on Saturdays so I wish the service would improve in line with the cost. Rant over.

I know! V pricey I thought.

They are a rip off. I no longer buy any 1st class stamps on principle although even 2nd class ones are 50p each. Given as many Christmas cards as I possibly can by hand this year!

It's a stupid policy by Royal Mail because it will simply drive more and more customers away. And the deliveries now are appalling.

I think 60p to send something anywhere in the UK and to have it arrive there the next morning 90ish% of the time is pretty cheap.

92.3% arrive the next working day

We are just used to it being very very cheap.

I agree Trills

..just don't send letters. Emails will almost always do the job more efficiently and are greener.

It is shocking but... I bought a book
Full over a year ago.. Those buggers sat in my purse are rising in value! That is as close to investment as I will probably ever get

Yanbu. Bought a book of 2nd class stamps from the Co-op and had to sign next to the amount to prove I'd been given them.

I didn't realise second class stamps were fifty pee each until today.

You also have to sign next to cashback to prove you've been given it.

can you still use old ones even though the price has gone up?

WTF!?

Stamps have more or less doubled in price since I left the county (10 years ago) I had no idea Thought stamps were pricey here at 50 euro cent for first class!

I bought around £200 worth of stamps before they went up. The "interest rate" i.e. what they are worth now, was something like 37%. Note: DH is an accountant. I still have loads left and reckon they will last me for at least another year.

Thing is their costs are increasing and fewer people are using the service so they put the price up. So people don't use it as much. Etc. etc. etc. and they have their profit targets, like all things that used to be known as public services.

Yeah, where I am is a much smaller country with an excellent infrastructure. Also are equivalent of Royal Mail is TNT, so a multinational and much less pushed for cash.

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Where are you nomarlene?