UK Postage Price Increase! :D

[beecs]

Here are the new prices for postage in the UK direct from the Royal Mail website!

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/cont ... tId=600025

Current book of stamps Price
12 x First Class - £4.92
12 x Second Class - £3.84
6 x First Class - £2.46
4 x European (up to 40g) - £3.52
4 x Worldwide (up to 40g) - £5.84
4 x Worldwide (Airmail postcards) - £2.68

2nd - 32p (2nd class UK basic Letter rate)
1st - 41p (1st class UK basic Letter rate)
56p (old European 10g Airmail) is now 60p (European 10g Airmail)
62p (old Rest of the World 10g) is now 67p (Rest of the World 10g Airmail)
90p (old Rest of the World 20g) is now 97p (Rest of the World 20g Airmail)

PM me if you need any stamps and if you need any help with understanding this as it was a bit rushed!

Cheers,
-Rebecca

[TheORKINMan]

Argh is all I have to say to all the people I have out currently with 62p stamps on them

[RobertaRight]

Please read if you send sth to UK!

I have just found out myself and thought somebody might find this useful as well.


, Royal Mail to increase Postage From April 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12019636

[HappinessStan]

This is not good news

I am not looking forward to the royal mail being flogged off in the near future, either.

[BossC]

I have a question about the increases: I have UK 2nd class stamps (they are a beautiful blue color). Does their value increase when the postage goes up like the US Forever stamps? Or will I need to buy other stamps to cover the increase in cost when it starts in April?

BossC

[RobertaRight]

I was wondering the same about US stamps a while ago. Thinking they are forever, right?

But they raised price for the service (sending international letter), too, meaning the same amount of stamps would not be enough despite their increased value. If I am not mistaken.

How it will be with UK I do not know. Yet.

[HappinessStan]

The blue ones (2nd class) and the gold ones (first class) work the same as US Forever stamps, their value rises when the prices go up. There are also Christmas ones without values on (Wallace and Gromit this year, very nice too!) without prices printed on them, which will rise in value with the prices.

It's only if they've got a value printed on them that you would need to add more.

I've not had time to look to see if there's a list anywhere of what overseas prices will be rising to, it may be as well to add another stamp to the return envelope just in case if you're sending from overseas to the UK.

[Jaffer]

Bloody royal mail, I am going to have to rush my UK requests now

[dfreely]

Royal Mail has a PDF of the new prices here
ftp://ftp.royalmail.com/Downloads/publi ... cument.pdf

Non-denominated stamps (1st Class, 2nd Class, Worldwide, etc) will go up in value to match the new prices. Stamps with numerical values on them (1p, 10p, 25p, etc) will stay the same.

I haven't compared the new prices to the old ones yet, but even if use non-denominated stamps, you may need to add more.

[BossC]

I was wondering the same about US stamps a while ago. Thinking they are forever, right?

But they raised price for the service (sending international letter), too, meaning the same amount of stamps would not be enough despite their increased value. If I am not mistaken.

How it will be with UK I do not know. Yet.

The forever stamps have the liberty bell on them and recently they released some holiday themed forever stamps with evergreen and pinecones on them. Those will always be worth the first class value and the worth will go up any time the price is increased, but they should be fine for using international.

Once I know what the international increase will be I can figure out how many stamps the letters will be.

Right now, to send a small photo to the UK is 0.98--I use two forever stamps and a 0.10 one. The 0.10 stamp will NOT be worth more in the increase, but the forever stamps value will go up, I just don't know by how much.

BossC