The price of stamps is due to rise on 25 March, but the price of second class mail is capped until 1 April.
I haven't seen a stamp machine for years, and many people will stock up in advance anyway because the design will not change and old stamps will still be valid.
Why not delay the price rise for a week? What am I missing?
Stamp machines were phased out when the monopoly on selling stamps was removed from 'The Post Office'. It was decided they were not nessesary once any shop could sell stamps.
Other than the occasional birthday card, do people still put letters in postboxes?
Serious question.
This isn't an exaggeration to make a point - I honestly cannot remember the last time I posted a letter. Since the advent of email I reckon it's probably a good 20 years since I posted a business letter (which probably coincided with the last time I picked-up a dictaphone!)
some of my investments require signed documents occasionally so I post those...apart from that, birthday and christmas cards, I have got a couple of friends with whom I exchange letters, not emails.
Useful to know, Mamy, thank you! I shall go and buy my stock in the next week or so. I think it is going to cost me more to post the invitations than it is to actually produce them!!!!!!!!!
I can remember when a first class stamp cost a few pence and you actually had it delivered the next day. I had a letter posted to me last October, first class, properly addressed. It turned up in January!!!!!
1st and 2nd class stamps marked with just the class 1st ,2nd. Are permanently valid at what ever the appropriate cost is at the time. A 1st class stamp bought today will still be valid for 1st class post 20 or even 100 years from now. One good reason for buying 1st or 2nd Class stamps rather than buying by price.
Lol, in which case I may have the answer. When my father in law died Mr BM inherited a huge stamp collection (of no value whatsoever). I may just use all the stamps marked "first".........
I use a large amount of stamps all the time, for my postal quizzes, letters abroad and for birthday cards etc for friends and family.
I jokingly said last week that if i ever moved house, it wouldnt matter what the house was like as long as it had a post box outside!!!!