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Royal Mail to increase stamp prices
Royal Mail to increase stamp prices
January 2007 First class up 2p, second class up 1p Royal Mail will be increasing first and second class stamp prices from April 2007. First class stamps for small letters will increase from 32p to 34p, whilst second class stamps for small letters will rise to 24p from 23p. Large letters sent first class will cost 48p, an increase of 4p, whilst large letters sent second class will cost 40p, a jump of 3p. Royal Mail have defended the decision to increase prices, claiming that they are being brought more in line with the actual cost of providing the service. "Stamped mail made a loss of £237m in the 2005-06 financial year, equivalent to 6p on every first and second class stamped letter," said Lorna Clarkson, Royal Mail's director of commercial policy and pricing. |
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Royal Mail to increase stamp prices
"Alan" wrote in message ... Royal Mail to increase stamp prices January 2007 First class up 2p, second class up 1p Royal Mail will be increasing first and second class stamp prices from April 2007. First class stamps for small letters will increase from 32p to 34p, whilst second class stamps for small letters will rise to 24p from 23p. Large letters sent first class will cost 48p, an increase of 4p, whilst large letters sent second class will cost 40p, a jump of 3p. Royal Mail have defended the decision to increase prices, claiming that they are being brought more in line with the actual cost of providing the service. "Stamped mail made a loss of £237m in the 2005-06 financial year, equivalent to 6p on every first and second class stamped letter," said Lorna Clarkson, Royal Mail's director of commercial policy and pricing. The date of the increase is 2 April. The changes will probably mean the demise of the 9p and 12p make-up stamps and a new one for 16p. While these basic price changes are modest, there will be an average of 6% increase on higher rates, well above inflation. Douglas |
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Royal Mail to increase stamp prices
No doubt we will get the usual winges from the politicians and other
ill-informed parties. However it is a fact that in part these price increases are directly attributable to government action in as much as the Royal mail's monopoly has been destroyed - allowing the competition to "cherry-pick" the profitable business which has always "cross-subsidised" the unprofitable. Thus the only people who will have to pay the new rates are those who cannot access the competition's services, where the competition deems the business to be not worth chasing. IMHO if you introduce competition the competitor should be FORCED to offer the same level of service as the prior monopoly - that way we can see who really is the more efficient. The days of universally accessible one-price postage ( as per the penny post of 1840 ) is dead - Rowland Hill must be turning ( nay spinning! ) in his grave. In the race for business economy, and the great god profitability, the people at large have omitted to realise ( as a result of "spin") just what a fundamental change this is - yet another way of punishing the disadvantaged in our so-called egalitarian society - people would sooner "posture" about (sometimes imagined )racism, sexism. ageism etc - and yet ignore fundamental inequality such as this - presumably because you can't "sex-up" a boring subject like postal rates!! End of rant Regards from UK Malcolm Douglas Myall wrote: "Alan" wrote in message ... Royal Mail to increase stamp prices January 2007 First class up 2p, second class up 1p Royal Mail will be increasing first and second class stamp prices from April 2007. First class stamps for small letters will increase from 32p to 34p, whilst second class stamps for small letters will rise to 24p from 23p. Large letters sent first class will cost 48p, an increase of 4p, whilst large letters sent second class will cost 40p, a jump of 3p. Royal Mail have defended the decision to increase prices, claiming that they are being brought more in line with the actual cost of providing the service. "Stamped mail made a loss of £237m in the 2005-06 financial year, equivalent to 6p on every first and second class stamped letter," said Lorna Clarkson, Royal Mail's director of commercial policy and pricing. The date of the increase is 2 April. The changes will probably mean the demise of the 9p and 12p make-up stamps and a new one for 16p. While these basic price changes are modest, there will be an average of 6% increase on higher rates, well above inflation. Douglas |
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Royal Mail to increase stamp prices
Prices of currently valid stamps do not increase, it is the postage rate
that does. Tony "Douglas Myall" wrote in message ... "Alan" wrote in message ... Royal Mail to increase stamp prices January 2007 First class up 2p, second class up 1p Royal Mail will be increasing first and second class stamp prices from April 2007. First class stamps for small letters will increase from 32p to 34p, whilst second class stamps for small letters will rise to 24p from 23p. Large letters sent first class will cost 48p, an increase of 4p, whilst large letters sent second class will cost 40p, a jump of 3p. Royal Mail have defended the decision to increase prices, claiming that they are being brought more in line with the actual cost of providing the service. "Stamped mail made a loss of £237m in the 2005-06 financial year, equivalent to 6p on every first and second class stamped letter," said Lorna Clarkson, Royal Mail's director of commercial policy and pricing. The date of the increase is 2 April. The changes will probably mean the demise of the 9p and 12p make-up stamps and a new one for 16p. While these basic price changes are modest, there will be an average of 6% increase on higher rates, well above inflation. Douglas ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Royal Mail to increase stamp prices
"A.E. Gelat" wrote in message ... Prices of currently valid stamps do not increase, it is the postage rate that does. Tony "Douglas Myall" wrote in message ... The date of the increase is 2 April. The changes will probably mean the demise of the 9p and 12p make-up stamps and a new one for 16p. While these basic price changes are modest, there will be an average of 6% increase on higher rates, well above inflation. Douglas Huh? It is true that any stocks of Non Value Indicator stamps that you may hold will rise in value from the date of the increase but if you run out of them or don't have any you will have to pay more for them from 2 April than you do today. So the prices of some currently valid stamps WILL increase Douglas |
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Royal Mail to increase stamp prices
Douglas Myall wrote: "A.E. Gelat" wrote in message ... Prices of currently valid stamps do not increase, it is the postage rate that does. Tony "Douglas Myall" wrote in message ... The date of the increase is 2 April. The changes will probably mean the demise of the 9p and 12p make-up stamps and a new one for 16p. While these basic price changes are modest, there will be an average of 6% increase on higher rates, well above inflation. Douglas Huh? It is true that any stocks of Non Value Indicator stamps that you may hold will rise in value from the date of the increase but if you run out of them or don't have any you will have to pay more for them from 2 April than you do today. So the prices of some currently valid stamps WILL increase Douglas All this has a familiar ring to it. USPS is lurking, looking for more insane ideas. Ralphael, the OLD one |
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Royal Mail to increase stamp prices
"malcolm" wrote in message
ps.com... snip IMHO if you introduce competition the competitor should be FORCED to offer the same level of service as the prior monopoly - that way we can see who really is the more efficient. snip Regards from UK Malcolm IMN(ot)S(o)HO nobody should be forced to do something as long as it uses peaceful means. Just to note that my site below is mainly about using force (for a better future for all, of course) and about the results. Best regards from CH Victor Manta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Royal Mail to increase stamp prices
Victor
Sorry- perhaps I could have picked better wording, I forget that non-native English speakers sometimes translate literally - I didn't mean physical force. How does "legally obliged" sound? The gist of the argument is that competition between two operators providing different levels of service is unfair, and the people who through circumstances are" forced "( by circumstances rather than by men in jackboots !) to use the universal system rather than the selective system inevitablyhave to pay more. Perhaps Governemnt ought to allow the Royal Mail to scale down its service to the same level as the competition thus leaving the private consumer with no mail service at all! Victor Manta wrote: "malcolm" wrote in message ps.com... snip IMHO if you introduce competition the competitor should be FORCED to offer the same level of service as the prior monopoly - that way we can see who really is the more efficient. snip Regards from UK Malcolm IMN(ot)S(o)HO nobody should be forced to do something as long as it uses peaceful means. Just to note that my site below is mainly about using force (for a better future for all, of course) and about the results. Best regards from CH Victor Manta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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