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I'm in a state of severe shock!!!
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wisechild | Report | 14 Nov 2013 08:04 |
Yes. Our postal charges go up every January. Think they are currently about 72cents for a basic sized letter to Europe. |
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JustJohn | Report | 14 Nov 2013 08:17 |
Two days ago, the press report said that the average Christmas spend per UK family this year will be £822. |
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wisechild | Report | 14 Nov 2013 14:30 |
More like 82.20 in our house John. & no doubt half of that will be on postage. |
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JustJohn | Report | 14 Nov 2013 14:59 |
I would struggle to buy my cards, stamps, an X Box, an iPhone 5S and a new Honda Jazz for £82.20. Lucky to get any change from £300 for that lot :-( Plus 4 certs from Southport and an old Cassini OS map of the Rhondda in 1850 ;-) |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 16 Nov 2013 10:45 |
well I was so mad about this I wrote to our local South Wales Echo expressing my disgust and lo and behold, it's in today's edition :-D |
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ZZzzz | Report | 17 Nov 2013 20:37 |
I always buy Christmas cards, tags, and wrapping paper and other such things in the January sales, keep in an old suitcase in the attic, sometimes there is enough in there that I don't need to buy any for the current year, I buy books of stamps through the year, it at least spreads the cost a bit. |
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Nolls from Harrogate | Report | 17 Nov 2013 20:43 |
Hubby went to check on cards for Christmas for abroad (Aus/US/NZ) he was supposed to bring them back to be posted later.....I nearly fell of the chair when he said postage cost over £14. Won't be doing that in a hurry again! |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 17 Nov 2013 20:58 |
be a good idea if the Post Office sold Christmas stamps cheaper - stamps that can only be used at Christmas time on Christmas cards |
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Joeva | Report | 17 Nov 2013 21:01 |
Have a couple of books of 1st/2nd class stamps from previous years so will be using them this year :-D |
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Dermot | Report | 17 Nov 2013 21:08 |
Anyone on here willing to work in a Royal Mail sorting office during the Christmas rush? |
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AnninGlos | Report | 17 Nov 2013 21:12 |
I think an envelope A5 size will go for ordinary second class, anything larger will be weighed. If the A5 envelope is too thick for the slot in the tester 'thing' or if it has an embellishment that snags and wont go through smoothly, it will need a large second class. As will a small envelope that is too bulky. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 17 Nov 2013 22:18 |
I don't think it is a poor service, since living " out in the sticks" over 30 years we have only ever had one post delivery, one time when I posted letters to Wales and 17 miles up the road at the same time, the letters to Wales got there first all were first class. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 18 Nov 2013 04:24 |
Like Barry_, I also think you get a flipping good deal if it is only costing you 50p to mail a Christmas card AND if you are only sending out a handful of overseas letters. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 18 Nov 2013 12:00 |
May be a faulty memory, but wasn't there the opportunity last year for Pensioners to buy a certain number of discount priced stamps? |
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Barry_ | Report | 11 Dec 2013 18:53 |
I'm in a state of severe shock, too, Ann! |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 11 Dec 2013 21:13 |
Hi Barry_ |
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Barry_ | Report | 11 Dec 2013 22:17 |
Hello, Sylvia! I hope you are well. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 12 Dec 2013 04:24 |
Hi Barry |
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Nolls from Harrogate | Report | 12 Dec 2013 05:48 |
Having sent a load of cards abroad recently the general cost is £1.28 which appears to be dearer than the Canadian cost. The cost of normal letters are 60 / 50p small and 90 /69p large so on an average cost with Canada, Sylvia and Barry. I would also think that the Canadian pension (as I'm sure there are a lot of folks on here that are of pensionable age ...sorry if wrong) will be a lot higher than the GB pension.... again do correct me if I'm wrong ... which makes the cost high for us OAP's :-S |
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Barry_ | Report | 12 Dec 2013 10:53 |
Nols, perhaps you will care to chew on this little lot! |