Royal Mail criticised as first-class stamp price rises to £1.80 despite ‘failing service’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

I strongly suspect that the factor is electronic communication, as that's the major issue in the US for the Postal Service. The norm for communication used to be "send a letter". But the Internet did a pretty good number on that.

The article has:

“We always consider price changes very carefully, balancing affordability with the rising cost of delivering mail,” said Richard Travers, its managing director of letters. “There are 70% fewer letters sent than 20 years ago,” added Travers. “In the meantime, the number of addresses we deliver to has increased by 4 million to 32 million across the UK.”

I'm pretty confident that I write far more than I did 30 years ago. But...I send essentially no letters today.

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Easy fix charge me a small fee to not deliver all the junk mail I just throw away anyway

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 points 12 hours ago

Or charge more to send junk mail

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