Who still pays for a letter?

[cloherty1976]

As letters are our buisiness do you still pay a company to send you a letter bill or do you take the discounts on offer for electronic bills. I know I pay virgin £1.75 for a paper bill and all my other bills I think charge. Just noticed the halifax are going to take my credit card offline if I don't opt for paperless bills . No chance I would rather pay to keep letters coming through the letter box..

[Brain Fury]

As letters are our buisiness do you still pay a company to send you a letter bill or do you take the discounts on offer for electronic bills. I know I pay virgin £1.75 for a paper bill and all my other bills I think charge. Just noticed the halifax are going to take my credit card offline if I don't opt for paperless bills . No chance I would rather pay to keep letters coming through the letter box..

Nope I have all my bills and statements on line although one savings bank insists on sending me a paper statement too which is fine with me. On the other hand I always opt for marketing communications by post rather than e-mail or phone which I suspect is many times the amount of mail generated as bills etc.

[glenfiddich]

take the discount as they are all dsa companies anyway

[cloherty1976]

take the discount as they are all dsa companies anyway

hopefully we can win some of these companies back undercutting the price.

[arnold cheshire]

it doesnt cost 1.75 to send a letter so dont bother i would rather buy a few stamps than do that

[cloherty1976]

it doesnt cost 1.75 to send a letter so dont bother i would rather buy a few stamps than do that

That's what firms charge these days. I am old fashioned so like a paper bill and have to pay. But I suppose also it's my job at the end of the day and if everyone stops having letters that means jobs will go..

[arnold cheshire]

it doesnt cost 1.75 to send a letter so dont bother i would rather buy a few stamps than do that

That's what firms charge these days. I am old fashioned so like a paper bill and have to pay. But I suppose also it's my job at the end of the day and if everyone stops having letters that means jobs will go..

yes i know thats what firms are charging they are making money not just charging for a stamp

[Martin Walsh]

The amount of letters being sent is now at the equivalent levels as in the 1980s. The fact it has declined is not that significant when you see that the revenue for letters is still over half of that of the total revenue and remember they get more now due to sized based pricing. Oh and that there is significant less staff now to deal with the letters.

However the packets or parcels has grown and has the potential to grow due to the digital revolution.

This industry was not in crisis , we have had successive failed management , who remembers when they changed the brand name to consingina and then bought all those parcels companies aboard and sold for nothing.

Who remembers the fact that we went from bust to boom with Leighton and Crozier and then when Moya joined we were back to bust and needed to be sold off. Its a total con.

This industry could have survived and prospered as a service but instead it is now being sold so the terms and conditions can be reduced in the name of profit.

[cloherty1976]

The amount of letters being sent is now at the equivalent levels as in the 1980s. The fact it has declined is not that significant when you see that the revenue for letters is still over half of that of the total revenue and remember they get more now due to sized based pricing. Oh and that there is significant less staff now to deal with the letters.

Remember how many people used to be on facing tables to sort 1st and 2nd class letters and then feeding the phg's on the coding desks. The good old days or you could also say the dark age.

[veronihilverius]

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[arnold cheshire]

As letters are our buisiness do you still pay a company to send you a letter bill or do you take the discounts on offer for electronic bills. I know I pay virgin £1.75 for a paper bill and all my other bills I think charge. Just noticed the halifax are going to take my credit card offline if I don't opt for paperless bills . No chance I would rather pay to keep letters coming through the letter box..

i was thinking of going the post office every week to buy two pounds worth of stamps to save the business