The New Postal Charges
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I have printed the following list out and stuck it on a piece of card with the
scales that I use to weigh the post. Some of you may have noticed that you do
not always get the same stamps back that you sent (especially those marked 1st
and 2nd just before the post charge increase). This way the club has saved a
lot of money. I was collecting the stamps marked 1st and 2nd, sending out 25p
and 19p stamps respectively before the price rise, for each of these stamps,
8BS saved 1p as soon as charges went up!
The increase on 2nd class 61g to 100g is a particularly nasty one for us as
this is a 2p increase on the most common weight of packages to and from 8BS.
LETTER Parcel
Grammes 1st 2nd KG p
0-60 26 20 1 2.70
61-100 39 31 2 3.35
101-150 49 38 4 4.90
151-200 60 45 6 5.50
201-250 70 55 8 6.30
251-300 80 64 10 7.30
301-350 92 73 30 8.55
351-400 1.04 83
401-450 1.17 93
451-500 1.30 1.05
501-600 1.60 1.25
601-700 2.00 1.45
701-750 2.15 1.55
751-800 2.30 Naa!
801-900 2.55
900-1000 2.75
1001-1250 3.45
1251-1500 4.15
1501-1750 4.85
1751-1800 5.55
CJR