Fair price rise of stamps ?

[tonyf39]

you could of course try to 'sell' back your stamps back to the post office using form P674, not sure how much they charge for this but it used to be about 15%. No idea as to how many you can sell back either but could work out to be easy money if it works

 

[Easy_Rider]

Interesting, I think you may only get the same value back though I'm not sure.
An unused 1st or 2nd class stamp from say 20 years ago can still be used today?

 

[tonyf39]

Interesting, I think you may only get the same value back though I'm not sure.
An unused 1st or 2nd class stamp from say 20 years ago can still be used today?

AS stamps nowadays (1st & 2nd in any case) are not marked with their value in pence then it wouldn't matter when you bought them. The stamps are the same now as they were from a few years ago.
I'd bought a job lot of 1st class stamps back in March 2010 from Costco at approx 36.5p per stamp and because they are still the same stamps they will be worth 60p each.
Aside from the usual cycle trading I send largish parcels to Australia a few times a year and whack loads of stamps on them to cover the postage. Think the most I've used is 32 stamps on one package

 

[Kestonian]

Is it controversial to say the RM should be privatised?

I use it very rarely, so why should I subsidise it (as a taxpayer)?

I agree there are some institutions to which I should contribute, despite not using them.

 

[NAILTRAIL96]

Is it controversial to say the RM should be privatised?

I use it very rarely, so why should I subsidise it (as a taxpayer)?

I agree there are some institutions to which I should contribute, despite not using them.

The plan is to sell it off, If nothing else subsidising it is unfair to any competition that may wish to offer services.

 

[highlandsflyer]

I am all for the competition to provide the services we need, perfectly healthy to let people with a better idea make money from it.

The problem I see is where these services are by their very nature non profitable.

Rural postal services strike me as such, and I cannot see private operators stepping in to save them.

 

[JeRkY]

As for privatisation you only have to look at our railways to see how well that has not worked. I read somewhere that there is more tax payers money being pumped into the privatised rail network now than there was under British rail.

 

[greenstiles]

The RM have fallingsales due to email and alike...........instead of accepting there is just less business, they have done this to keep the same amountof money coming in, even though they are not delivering as much.

That's like if i had a bike shop i would just put my prices up to counter my lack of sales. But where as if i did that people would just go to another bike shop, were stuffed sending letters as they are the people that do it. Which to me says it should not be private.

If their letter sales are down so much, then surely there is less post to sort and less to be delivered, so why the big price hike..................they just want the same profits with less business GREEDY !

Can't anyone else see this ? or are you BAH king :roll:

 

[Kestonian]

As for privatisation you only have to look at our railways to see how well that has not worked. I read somewhere that there is more tax payers money being pumped into the privatised rail network now than there was under British rail.

I suspect that if that is the case, it is because of the split between train operators and infrastructure owners and is very different. In cases of private operators and shared infrastructure it is indeed a lot more complicated. Interesting to see how this will pan out - will private operators have to have their own pillar boxes?

 

[highlandsflyer]

I would expect the number of post boxes to decrease rapidly over the years, to the point where you need to take letters to a depot. Try finding a telephone box when you need one these days. The world is changing, and I don't think it is all good.