are 1st class stamps too expensive?

[Biker Mouse]

Don't forget the cost of a stamp has only gone up by 45pence in nearly 200 years!

A bit like our Christmas bonus

8/11d actually!

[krussel]

When i started in 1988 a first class stamp was the same price as a Mars bar. A Mars in our vending machine is now 75p.

[Lounge Lizard]

When i started in 1988 a first class stamp was the same price as a Mars bar. A Mars in our vending machine is now 75p.

In 1971 a second class stamp was 2½p, a first class stamp was 3p and a Mars bar was 4p.

[TeeferTiger]

In 1971 I wasn't born...

[pcb]

Eventually 1c will be phased out and a universal price with 2/3 delivery. Next day will be for business mail only at a premium. Don't forget at weekends the 2 streams are dispatched as one. This is the future!

[Lounge Lizard]

Eventually 1c will be phased out and a universal price with 2/3 delivery. Next day will be for business mail only at a premium. Don't forget at weekends the 2 streams are dispatched as one. This is the future!

Only one class, yes, but with First Class being the great majority of stamped mail and more lucrative, it's most likely Second Class to go.
A few years down the line though the First Class price will only give a Second Class service, just like abolishing Second Deliveries and then a few years later First Deliveries being at the time of the old seconds. all of which will be hastened with privatisation.

[sidewinder]

When i started in 1988 a first class stamp was the same price as a Mars bar. A Mars in our vending machine is now 75p.

I hate mars bars but the cost of a stamp still is cheap for the work it takes to process and deliver it.

[dvbuk55]

In 1971 I wasn't born...

No that's 1971 Teefer, not 1871

[smelly_cat_lady]

Or could it just be that the last day for posting cards 2nd class is Saturday, hence the high numbers? Still at a loss as to why postman are buying stamps when we get them free? Chumps

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Or could it just be that the last day for posting cards 2nd class is Saturday, hence the high numbers? Still at a loss as to why postman are buying stamps when we get them free? Chumps

1. They could send more than 50 letters a year ....
2. Has anyone except teefer said in this thread that they have purchased any. Teefer is no longer a postwoman BTW so she won't get any free ones...

Chumps ????

[TeeferTiger]

Or could it just be that the last day for posting cards 2nd class is Saturday, hence the high numbers? Still at a loss as to why postman are buying stamps when we get them free? Chumps

1. They could send more than 50 letters a year ....
2. Has anyone except teefer said in this thread that they have purchased any. Teefer is no longer a postwoman BTW so she won't get any free ones...

Chumps ????

Precisely... so if anyone would like to donate any of their free ones to me, I'd be very grateful

I used up my stash of free ones that I'd not used from all the previous years when I sent out wedding invites

[kawoxux]

If I had nothing better to do, I'd quite like to tot up the value of the mail that I deliver one day and see how much RM actually get (though obviously the money processing it is an unknown because you dont know where its come from). Probabaly more than you'd think

[dvbuk55]

I don't think 1st class stamps are too dear. I do believe one price fits all is a mistake, more particularly now that Grans letter to the grandkids is no longer the norm but the exception. PIP was a mistake. We should be charging in relation to cost over distance and more particularly in rural areas. The cost to deliver to rural areas far outweighs inner city deliveries and it should be realistically priced.

[baldrick]

I believe that first class is still cheaper than internal mail in most European countries.

[TeeferTiger]

Was there a comparison chart somewhere to show how RM prices compare to the european prices?

I think it worked out that RM was about 2nd cheapest or something... I can't remember now and I've had my tablets. In fact, I might've had 2 lots of tablets because I can't remember if I'd already taken them or not...