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First Class postage to rise to 60p from 30/4
27-03-2012 11:31 AM
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Quote A first-class stamp will rise in price from 46p to 60p from 30 April after the regulator removed price controls on Royal Mail.
A second-class stamp will go up from 36p to 50p - some 5p below the top price allowed by Ofcom.
Quote Royal Mail said that the cost of posting Christmas cards in 2012 will be the same as last year for consumers on pension credit and employment and support allowance or incapacity benefit.
Just over a month to stock up on 1st class stamps!
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27-03-2012 11:33 AM
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27-03-2012 11:38 AM
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So a 20-fold rise in a little over 30 years. Has anything else risen so dramatically over a similar period of time? I think I litre of petrol was just under 30p.
Edit: Memory not so good on this one as according to here 1st class was 10p and 2nd class was 8p.
So a six-fold rise - about the same as petrol, then.
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27-03-2012 12:23 PM
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27-03-2012 12:35 PM
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We recently had our daily delivery "reconfigured" to reflect the "changing pattern of personal communications"

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27-03-2012 12:55 PM
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Stamp Actual Percentage
Type Increase Increase
First 14p 30.4%
Second 14p 38.9%
A better headline would be -
2nd Class stamp price to increase by nearly 40%
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27-03-2012 1:38 PM
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Someone else has sent me something today (a book) and paid £7

I remember before privatisation a 2nd class stamp was 19p and first class was 25p. Now we're talking 60p?


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27-03-2012 1:45 PM
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27-03-2012 2:06 PM
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27-03-2012 2:30 PM
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Quote from: A The penny black only cost 1d.
As did the penny Red
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27-03-2012 2:34 PM
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27-03-2012 3:12 PM
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27-03-2012 3:16 PM
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27-03-2012 3:51 PM
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27-03-2012 3:54 PM
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