Fair price rise of stamps ?

[Kestonian]

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.

Then some enterprising young soul will offer a drop-off service in villages and take the letters en-masse to the depot once a day in exchange for a small fee.

Most likely, they'll also offer a postal-receipt service so you don't need to be at home when the post / parcels arrive.

 

[highlandsflyer]

I see what you did there.

More likely the march towards electronic documents superseding all but a small quantity of 'written' material will quicken.

The logical future of mail collection and delivery seems to be the home shopping distribution network.

 

[NAILTRAIL96]

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:

Because it's a volume bussiness.
If you fly a plane from one end of the country and it costs £1000 you can then divide that cost by the number of items carried, more items are cheaper as the costs are spread out.

People aren't sending fewer letters because they get a better deal elswhere it's because email is better all round. Without hundred of letters subsidising the transport network the price of everything else goes up.
Everyone else puts there prices up with fuel to cover transport costs why not RM.

You're too busy thinking about sheep to understand, it's not greed, it's just business.

 

[greenstiles]

I carfully left out collection from before because postmen/women will still have to go to the post boxes regardless of how many letters there are to be collected. As i said i did not include that, because that cost would ramain. BUT if there are fewer letters to sort/transport and deliver, this should surely cost less to conduct. Less to sort (by people) and less weight/volume to carry(in fuel). So I still see it as they are loosing out on sales and now they have free rain they have just decided to go for it and make up the short fall in profits.

 

[greenstiles]

I have recently decided to send all packages through other couriers, because of the over inflated RM prices for packages and large (what they call large !!!) letters.

If they want to scare people off to other companies because of thier parcel/post charges, then that's their fault for not being competitive with large letters/small packages etc.

 

[poweredbypies]

I have recently decided to send all packages through other couriers, because of the over inflated RM prices for packages and large (what they call large !!!) letters.

If they want to scare people off to other companies because of thier parcel/post charges, then that's their fault for not being competitive with large letters/small packages etc.

There you go problem solved. Good luck sending birthday cards and crimbo cards with yodel :twisted:

 

[greenstiles]

Have not sent a birthday card or xmas card for a long time, send cards with the parcels presents.....cheaper sending them together

 

[tonyf39]

According to recent checks by royal mail the amount of letters & parcels had dropped by 6% (a 20 year low which then means it has been lower previously by definition)
What they don't say is what the proportion of those items are letters so the actual income from those reduced numbers will still be more given the huge increase in packages that cost more to post

We all know that letters are a loss maker for RM, but even with a mickey poor company as theirs with all the theft and unions etc they are still able to make a profit. given it's a public service operator does it have to make a profit in any case?
Privatisation will make the PO & RM as we know it a dim & distance memory and far more expensive over the next 5 years.

 

[greenstiles]

Well said