Things you never knew existed: https://priceofastamp.co.uk/
It looks like stamp prices have increased slightly above inflation but when you consider how few letters are actually sent since a stamp was a few pence it kind of makes sense. You can send a letter from one end of the country to another for £1.65 and I don’t think that’s too bad!
But with increasing stamp prices it becomes harder to justify sending a letter. Sounds more like a death spiral.
The public services are being squeezed because the elite won’t pay taxes, so the common man has to come up with the money, but classes under the 1% are being robbed by the elite too.
Its no longer a public service, it was privatised a decade ago and is now foreign owned.
Yeah, even worse. It was sold off because some billionaires paid off enough politicians to defund it and make it private. Less money for the public services means more privatisation.
I strongly suspect that the factor is electronic communication, as that’s the major issue in the US for the Postal Service. The norm for communication used to be “send a letter”. But the Internet did a pretty good number on that.
The article has:
“We always consider price changes very carefully, balancing affordability with the rising cost of delivering mail,” said Richard Travers, its managing director of letters. “There are 70% fewer letters sent than 20 years ago,” added Travers. “In the meantime, the number of addresses we deliver to has increased by 4 million to 32 million across the UK.”
I’m pretty confident that I write far more than I did 30 years ago. But…I send essentially no letters today.
Easy fix charge me a small fee to not deliver all the junk mail I just throw away anyway
Or charge more to send junk mail
We have fair use policies from ISP’s why not fair use policies from the post office?
eh! that’s the 100th letter you posted today, your 1st class price just doubled for a week.
