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Re: UK Stamps.

by Bobbyt45 » Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:51 pm

SadSunday wrote:Hello, as I am not from UK, but I need some UK stamps, I wonder where I could buy them? Royal mail only sells the ones that needs to be posted the following day (and that is very inconvenient when you live in a different country) or stamps sheets that are just worth to if you need just one stamp. Maybe somebody knows any other ways to acquire the UK stamps? Thank you.
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Re: UK Stamps.

by SadSunday » Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:48 am

Price calculator is easy, but 1st and 2nd stamp values were a total mystery for me. Nobody writes anywhere how much they are worth (and how much large are worth and if you can use them of international mail). :D That's hard!

Re: UK Stamps.

by kimmylee » Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:29 am

I'm delighted to help and appreciate your thanks.

Lots of people post here without a please or thank you, and expect others to do all the work for them.

Me, I work on the assumption that if someone can join and post on a forum, they can use a price calculator themselves :)

Always happy to point in the right direction, and help clarify things when it's clear the asker has made efforts themselves already.

Re: UK Stamps.

by SadSunday » Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:04 am

Just right now these Royal mail stamps are the cheapest for my cause and seems easiest to acquire :/

Thank you so so so much. It's so hard for a foreigner to understand British stamp system :D

Re: UK Stamps.

by kimmylee » Sat Mar 05, 2016 9:22 pm

Yes 1st class are currently worth £0.63 & 2nd class £0.54.

The stamps you linked to are second class large letter worth £0.74, so you'd need 3 of those for a SASE price calculated as £1.52.

Other members here from abroad have had trouble ordering from the Royal Mail website just to warn you.

Re: UK Stamps.

by SadSunday » Sat Mar 05, 2016 7:42 pm

Just to make sure if I am right - one 1st stamp has a value of 0.63 and one 2nd has a value of 0.54?
Like, I can use all four of these (http://shop.royalmail.com/stamp-books/4 ... t/20140788) and be OK with my international SASE?

Thank you! You helped me a lot.

Re: UK Stamps.

by kimmylee » Sat Mar 05, 2016 7:28 pm

You can use any kind of stamps. As long as the value meets or exceeds the postage cost.

I always recommend 1st/2nd because the value is always the current selling price, even if you bought them for less. Protects your SASE against price rises (in the UK it's usually once a year in April). It's not 100% guaranteed with International mail, but odds are high and much better than fixed value stamps. As the prices nearly always rise.

If your price is £1.52 then at 0.54 (second) & 0.63 (first) you will need three stamps.

I live in the UK so buy mine locally, not online.

Re: UK Stamps.

by SadSunday » Sat Mar 05, 2016 6:43 pm

kimmylee wrote:Have a look on eBay or Amazon.

You will probably need to buy a book of 6 or 12 1st/ 2nd because I'm not sure anyone online sells just one single stamp.

And being in Europe you will need a minimum of two of those anyway :)

(1st & 2nd are sold commonly, the value specific stamps are not)
Hi, thank you. I tried the value "scales" on the Internet and it says that I need £1.52 stamp. So, I was looking for that one. I might be wrong. I thought that 1st and 2nd were only for inside the country post. But I might be wrong again. Maybe you can recommended some trusty Ebay sellers? (Via PM).

Re: UK Stamps.

by kimmylee » Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:48 pm

Have a look on eBay or Amazon.

You will probably need to buy a book of 6 or 12 1st/ 2nd because I'm not sure anyone online sells just one single stamp.

And being in Europe you will need a minimum of two of those anyway :)

(1st & 2nd are sold commonly, the value specific stamps are not)

UK Stamps.

by SadSunday » Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:14 am

Hello, as I am not from UK, but I need some UK stamps, I wonder where I could buy them? Royal mail only sells the ones that needs to be posted the following day (and that is very inconvenient when you live in a different country) or stamps sheets that are just worth to if you need just one stamp. Maybe somebody knows any other ways to acquire the UK stamps? Thank you.

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