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[securespark]

Go to the PO with an unstamped letter you need to get a signature for and it will cost you £1.81 second class, or £1.90 first.

Go to the PO with a letter that has a freepost address and how much do you pay?

The same.

Go figure.

It's the same with a pre-paid envelope too apparently.


Now, here's an interesting thought.

They have charged me full whack. Do you think they also charge the addressee as it was a freepost address?

 

[plastic_peanut]

Yes I would think they do.

I take it you haven’t got much on at the moment?

 

[securespark]

Don't know why you feel the need to be rude.
Just a bit of a rip-off.
Like going to a shop with a voucher and them telling you it's full price anyway....

 

[Vinty]

Heard one old geezer in the post office complaining about the price of a first class stamp on his letter to relatives in England.
The guy behind the post office counter said to him why don't you try delivering the letter yourself for 67 pence.

 

[Notch7]

Go to the PO with an unstamped letter you need to get a signature for and it will cost you £1.81 second class, or £1.90 first.

Go to the PO with a letter that has a freepost address and how much do you pay?

The same.

Go figure.

It's the same with a pre-paid envelope too apparently.


Now, here's an interesting thought.

They have charged me full whack. Do you think they also charge the addressee as it was a freepost address?

I guess if you want recorded delivery that is a set price with no discount if the postage has been paid.

you are asking for a different service so I can kind of see their argument.
I blame it on the EU -it mustve been a directive (joke....its a joke, pls dont nobody turn this into a B-rant)

 

[cwhaley]

Heard one old geezer in the post office complaining about the price of a first class stamp on his letter to relatives in England.
The guy behind the post office counter said to him why don't you try delivering the letter yourself for 67 pence.

If you've got a van full of say... 300 letters all priced at 67p to delivery and all destined for the same group of streets that's £200 for one delivery.

The cost to RM obviously gets less and less as demand increases and eventually they reach the point where they make profit -- how much profit they make is reflected in the cost of the stamp to the customer which some find too high. I think his grievance could be justified and not dismissed.

 

[securespark]

why don't you try delivering the letter yourself for 67 pence.

Good old Post Office standards of service!

 

[Ihavenojob]

Good old Post Office standards of service!

Telling it like it is should not be demeaned.

 

[MMarve]

Like going to a shop with a voucher and them telling you it's full price anyway....

No it's not, it's like going into a shop with a voucher for a free coffee and ordering a tea.

 

[JP_]

last place I worked, we sent a company pen to all our clients, past and present, one Christmas.
Forgot that the thickness of the pen meant that it was not standard postage.
Only a few complained ...