Stamps!

[Rival]

I just went to post a card and the Post Office wants £10 for a book of 8 first class stamps!! What the hell?

I had to wait in a queue with all the folks sending parcels abroad, just for a £1.25 single stamp, as though the lady at the other desk couldn't sell me one.

Disgusting service and horrible prices.

 

[ChristineM]

I just went to post a card and the Post Office wants £10 for a book of 8 first class stamps!! What the hell?

I had to wait in a queue with all the folks sending parcels abroad, just for a £1.25 single stamp, as though the lady at the other desk couldn't sell me one.

Disgusting service and horrible prices.

Inflation is a pain.

Sounds roughly the same as stamps over here. 1.16€ (or 1.66€ tracked) in France, €1.80 anywhere else in Europe, for up to 20gm envelope.


Though our post office is rarely busy, walk in, give the lady the envelopes, she weighs them, stamps them and puts them in the sack for delivery... Great service.

 

[Stevicus]

I can't remember the last time I had to buy a stamp.

 

[exchemist]

I just went to post a card and the Post Office wants £10 for a book of 8 first class stamps!! What the hell?

I had to wait in a queue with all the folks sending parcels abroad, just for a £1.25 single stamp, as though the lady at the other desk couldn't sell me one.

Disgusting service and horrible prices.

I avoid main post offices at this time of year for exactly that reason. One is better off getting stamps from a sub post office. I think the **** and mags counter at some supermarkets also sells stamps: the one in Richmond did when I used to get them for my parents.

I've just been up the road to get 4 stamps for overseas cards that I need to send: £2:20 each now, but only a couple of gay blokes wanting to send a parcel in the queue ahead of me, so not too bad.

I'm late with my cards this year. I need to post about 30 and deliver another dozen by hand. I'll send you one if you can PM me a postal address - but thinking about it you may not be in Canterbury when it arrives...........

 

[SalixIncendium]

I can't remember the last time I had to buy a stamp.

I was just going to say that. I don't recall the last time I mailed something.

 

[Rival]

I avoid main post offices at this time of year for exactly that reason. One is better off getting stamps from a sub post office. I think the **** and mags counter at some supermarkets also sells stamps: the one in Richmond did when I used to get them for my parents.

I've just been up the road to get 4 stamps for overseas cards that I need to send: £2:20 each now, but only a couple of gay blokes wanting to send a parcel in the queue ahead of me, so not too bad.

I'm late with my cards this year. I need to post about 30 and deliver another dozen by hand. I'll send you one if you can PM me a postal address - but thinking about it you may not be in Canterbury when it arrives...........

I'd originally asked a stamp from the card shop but they'd run out, so I had to go to Smith's, which doubles as the PO In Canterbury.

I'm highly likely to be in Canterbury so I'll send my address if you want.

 

[exchemist]

I was just going to say that. I don't recall the last time I mailed something.

Do people not send each other Christmas cards in the US? I know they don't seem to in France, but in the Netherlands they do - or my friends there do at least. And the US did take Santa Claus from the Netherlands.

 

[Rival]

I was just going to say that. I don't recall the last time I mailed something.

I don't know how big greetings cards are there, but here some folks get seriously bent out of shape if you don't send one.

 

[Eddi]

Do they still sell fancy stamps or do they only sell the plain boring standard ones?

 

[Rival]

Do they still sell fancy stamps or do they only sell the plain boring standard ones?

They always do nice stamps.

 

[exchemist]

I'd originally asked a stamp from the card shop but they'd run out, so I had to go to Smith's, which doubles as the PO In Canterbury.

I'm highly likely to be in Canterbury so I'll send my address if you want.

Go on then, one more card will cheer up your room. By PM, obvs.

 

[Eddi]

They always do nice stamps.

I remember they used to do special Christmas ones with robins and holly and things like that on

 

[Stevicus]

Do people not send each other Christmas cards in the US? I know they don't seem to in France, but in the Netherlands they do - or my friends there do at least. And the US did take Santa Claus from the Netherlands.

I think some people still send them, although I don't know if it's as common as used to be. People just don't mail stuff as much anymore, since there's so many other means of communication, paying bills online, paperless billing. People might also send gifts or gift cards through Amazon or some other shipper, not the postal service.

 

[ChristineM]

Do people not send each other Christmas cards in the US? I know they don't seem to in France, but in the Netherlands they do - or my friends there do at least. And the US did take Santa Claus from the Netherlands.

Its mostly new year cards in France but Noel cards are available

 

[Stevicus]

Its mostly new year cards in France but Noel cards are available

I knew he was popular in his time, but I didn't think Noel Coward had that much of a following that they're still sending Noel cards.

 

[ChristineM]

I knew he was popular in his time, but I didn't think Noel Coward had that much of a following that they're still sending Noel cards.

Haha...
My bad, it should have been Noël.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Do people not send each other Christmas cards in the US? I know they don't seem to in France, but in the Netherlands they do - or my friends there do at least. And the US did take Santa Claus from the Netherlands.

I don't know how big greetings cards are there, but here some folks get seriously bent out of shape if you don't send one.

They used to be big. I remember as a kid that my mother would spend hours writing them out and we'd stuff, seal and stamp them. I personally never understood the point when a phone call or a visit was much more personal. Some people still exchange them, I think. I don't partake in the holiday except for with my daughter and granddaughter.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Its mostly new year cards in France but Noel cards are available

Haha...
My bad, it should have been Noël.

Noël cards are probably more popular in England, then...

 

[ChristineM]

Noël cards are probably more popular in England, then...

Confusing card, Noel Gallagher, Union flag guitar ... French greeting

Probably pre Brexit

 

[exchemist]

I think some people still send them, although I don't know if it's as common as used to be. People just don't mail stuff as much anymore, since there's so many other means of communication, paying bills online, paperless billing. People might also send gifts or gift cards through Amazon or some other shipper, not the postal service.

Yes but a paper card with a religious picture on it and an expression of good wishes is hard to duplicate electronically. I do get some e-cards, but they tend to be rather naff and folksy. A lot of people buy cards that are printed by charities, so the proceeds go to them. Anyway I keep the tradition going, as a way of keeping in touch with people that I may not see from one end of the year to another.