Just over one hundred and sixty five times the price of sending a letter when I was a kid! Hardly surprising it's not used much these days, especially with newer forms of communication - texts and emails - so much quicker and cheaper.
Yes. You seem to have forgotten that we decimalised in 1971. The new stamps are 400X the price of one of those.
That's about the only thing I use them for now - plus Christmas cards (but I usually post them early, second class).
TBF, it's more to blame texting and emails. Sort of electronic natural selection (although the price rises are a disgrace too).
I don't know if that's true. It's not at float that bothered me too much as there is much competition these days. Water and electricity is another matter.
Worked fantastically until the bastards included compulsory QR codes (Charlie boy didn't want a smaller portrait to accommodate the QR codes, apparently).
I do. Still nicely in to double figures for receipt this week too.
We don't get a three day service now it is a Thursday service only
I don't use the post very often. I sent an old pal a Chrimbo card last year and inadvertently put an 'old' first class stamp on it, plucked from a dusty recess in my wallet.
I must confess that I hadn't realized the post office had been privatized. That makes the outmoding of my first class stamps unacceptable. When I bought them they didn't come with a notice of expiry date.Usual crass corporate logic - fewer people are buying our product or service, so let's increase the price to increase our revenue and restore profitability
Meanwhile last year, the Royal Mail CEO was paid £540,000 salary & £140,000 bonus.
Typical Privatistion = worse employment conditions and practices for the workers, higher prices and poorer level of service for the public as customers, but the usual generous salaries and bonuses for the bosses who preside over this shambles.
Not so. See my post below about Christmas cards.
