What happened to the penny post

[Dustydog]

Royal Mail will hike stamp prices again in April, pushing first‑class to £1.80 and second‑class to 91p

Have you noticed the drop in junk mail🙀

 

[RogerL]

Royal Mail will hike stamp prices again in April, pushing first‑class to £1.80 and second‑class to 91p

Have you noticed the drop in junk mail🙀

Have you noticed the 1-day a week deliveries we now get.

IMO the fundamental problem is that Royal Mail has a universal delivery obligation, ie anywhere in the UK however remote without surcharge, which their competition doesn't have - so it's unfair competition.

 

[birdman101]

The volume of post has dropped that our postman no longer has a bag, but just carries a few letters in his hand. He still has to walk the same distance on his round but delivering to very few houses. This cannot continue and as postage goes up the volume being delivered will be less.

 

[otherclive]

Our postie has a trolley and she/he delivers both mail and small parcels. We get mail not every day, but frequently during the week. Not sure what has happened to junk mail as we subscribed to not having it. So the lack of junk may be due to the subs or just little junk mail being sent.

All our NHS and health Center communication comes via the apps. So no potential delays there.

 

[borderbilly]

Have you not noticed the amount of people keeping pigeons?

 

[Beachball]

Similar to clive we get mail alternate days of the week letters and parcels .

 

[Hutch]

Here in Woburn Sands, we see the mail man delivering every day, even the junk mail gets put through. ie The Householder,

 

[birdman101]

We have post every day,but far from regular times anything between 10,30 and 3.30. Any parcels are dropped off with the van, then parks up on lay-by and does his round with letters,which nowadays is only a handful for about 60 houses.

 

[Dustydog]

Our postie uses an EV van.Then walks round the cul de sac. 6 days a week. PCv and CAMC magazines arrive safely👏. Reading on line is not the same🙀

 

[Oscarmax]

I would be happy if our postie just turned, that would be a good start, at least we don't get any junk mail.

 

[Sam Vimes]

British Rail syndrome.

1. Not enough people use the service - lets put the price up.
2. Even less people use the more expensive service - lets put the price up.

Rinse and repeat above

 

[JTQ]

IMO this is going to further reduce the Christmas card revenue stream, which I suspect every year had to have been something of a Golden egg event for the health of their kitty.

 

[RogerL]

IMO this is going to further reduce the Christmas card revenue stream, which I suspect every year had to have been something of a Golden egg event for the health of their kitty.

Agreed - we decided that last Christmas was the last time we'd send cards - the number had dwindled as people passed away or we lost touch.

 

[otherclive]

Agreed - we decided that last Christmas was the last time we'd send cards - the number had dwindled as people passed away or we lost touch.

We still send Christmas cards by post here and overseas, but the normal chit chat exchanges are emails.