First-class stamp will cost 60p

A first-class stamp will rise in price from 46p to 60p from 30 April after the regulator lifted some price controls on Royal Mail.

A second-class stamp will go up from 36p to 50p - some 5p below the top price allowed by Ofcom.

The regulator has allowed Royal Mail to set the price of first-class and business mail.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17522500

dosnt sound much but its a 30% increase
who needs a budget,its the little things that get us in the end,
everything adds up

Doesn't sound much but sending 10 Xmas cards first class will rise from £4.60 to £6.00.
Also prescription charges are going up from £7.40 to £7.65 I believe.
Luckily I don't pay so I'll be saving £45.90 a year

APS wrote:

Doesn't sound much but sending 10 Xmas cards first class will rise from £4.60 to £6.00.
Also prescription charges are going up from £7.40 to £7.65 I believe.
Luckily I don't pay so I'll be saving £45.90 a year

The Prices of very thing is going up these days

But up in Scotland we don`t have to pay prescription charges

fiona1964 wrote:

APS wrote:

Doesn't sound much but sending 10 Xmas cards first class will rise from £4.60 to £6.00.
Also prescription charges are going up from £7.40 to £7.65 I believe.
Luckily I don't pay so I'll be saving £45.90 a year

The Prices of very thing is going up these days

But up in Scotland we don`t have to pay prescription charges

im a scot and there is/was a lot of scots on here, and they say the same as me,scotland should pay a mimimum rate there is a thread on here some where about it

Prescription charges only got dropped in 2010 I think before we did have to pay for prescriptions

im too drunk to look think mazzie put the thread up

What got me was when I first had to start having my prescription after operation there were 2 items on it so it would cost me £14.20 then as I was only 58.I took it into the pharmacy and he said to me that 1 item you can buy over the counter £1.15p.Why the hell didn't the doc tell me this.

APS wrote:

What got me was when I first had to start having my prescription after operation there were 2 items on it so it would cost me £14.20 then as I was only 58.I took it into the pharmacy and he said to me that 1 item you can buy over the counter £1.15p.Why the hell didn't the doc tell me this.

exactly

pain killers. supermkts only pences off the doc £7,10p

Our surface mail has been 60 cents for a couple of years or so now, and is going up to 70 cents in the next month or so.. Our air mail has been $1.20 for some time, this will probably go up with the cost of avgas going up in price, so probably at least 10 cents on air mail too..

I would've thought with the postal people having more technology these days and less staff, they'd keep the prices down a bit more.. seems to me it's little wonder they're losing business to emails these days at the current prices...