First class stamp to increase to £1.65

[Cartwrightandson]

Second class will remain 85p

Price increase of 30p to happen on the 7th of October

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvge8yn77rzo

That's shirt. It took over a week for a card I sent to get from North to South England first class.!!!

Yanbu

It went up 10p in April!!

I don't see the point in first class stamps now. We get post at most 3 days a week on our street sometimes only once! It's absolutely ridiculous that they keep increasing the prices and yet the service gets worse!

WTF? That’s ludicrous. I guess now that most things can be sent by email instead the demand is lower but you’d think with the increase in online shopping they must have plenty of opportunities to make money from small parcels. Paying that to send a letter is criminal!

Royal Mail are pricing themselves out of the market. First class is a joke lucky if it gets there in under a week.

It's such a mystery to me why Royal Mail is in trouble. I mean- you raise prices beyond belief and reduce services and then people decide use alternatives? Just cant understand it.

I did have an inside-my-head “how much??” rant when I bought a book of First Class stamps the other month; but then I remembered last year, when I thought it would be pleasant to deliver my brother’s birthday card in person rather than mail it; and in comparison, I’d much rather pay £1.65 for Royal Mail to do it than have to cycle from SE23 to SW4 ever again, or take the P4 bus there and back (which I believe costs £2 each way nowadays.)

I suppose that’s just the way we have to think of it: now that the vast majority of life admin is paperless, the only things we really have to pay for are the greetings and celebrations cards, and £1.65 is really something of a bargain for that compared with the alternatives.

I just send most things second class....its only 85pence. Most times it gets there next day too......😳

We tend to get our mail when there's a junk mail shot.
Pizza's
Self rising armchairs.
Sky TV, broadband.

That's taking the piss

I sent a card, first (pah!) class to one of the DC posted 17/08 and it arrived yesterday

Royal Mail don’t want letters anymore, their bread and butter is now packets and parcels. They’re trying to disincentivise people from sending letters completely.

It is a deliberate bid to reduce letter demand to a point where they can argue that it is no longer feasible they be required to offer the universal service obligation. They do not want to do this any more because a lot of other providers are competing with them who are not required to offer the same prices to deliver to the far end of scotland/wales as an easy location off a motorway in the midlands.

I joined Postcrossing to send postcards to randoms around the world and receive postcards from other randoms. It costs me £2.50 for each one. Someone who I chat to online since receiving her postcard lives in Belarus. She went to Germany last month and sent me a postcard. The stamp cost her 95c, which is around 90p and it took 5 days to get to me.

I don't know what the rationale is with Royal Mail, it won't make me buy a first class stamp because now it will be cheaper to drive to friends to hand deliver their birthday cards. The ones not living locally will get a Facebook or WhatsApp birthday greeting and a photo of the card I made for them 😀

That's a crazy price! It's a shame for older people who look forward to receiving Christmas cards through the post.

I'm fairly certain we don't get post every day now anyway. It seems to be every third day at most

Excuse my ignorance ... but is Royal Mail now a private or public company?

I think this is unreasonable.

Even though I think Royal Mail face unfair competition because of all the things other parcel carriers are quite frankly able to get away with.

Christmas cards can be sent second class.

Same. We never get anything on Mondays. It's become a bit of a family joke 'Shal, I check the mail? Why- it's Monday) We tend to get a whole bunch of stuff on Wednesdays or thursdays and then that is it.

As we are currently engaged in some legal stuff going on with property it can be slightly inconvenient to get mail so rarely in a week.

It’s awful. For those of us who do write a lot of letters and cards (we exist!) it’s getting very expensive :( and unreliable, and slow of course.