tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post3503132932950724884..comments2023-07-25T13:50:02.601+01:00Comments on My Word 1: CouRteSy Of Ebenezer Scrooge and Charles Dickens ...BAH! HUMBUG.ZACLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07289333819869440699noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-17136246989273014912014-12-05T13:54:24.345+00:002014-12-05T13:54:24.345+00:00Hi Gilly,
I am using e-cards, I bought a 2 year s...Hi Gilly,<br /><br />I am using e-cards, I bought a 2 year subscription. Those people who have computers and have given me permission with their url's will be getting one Sadly, some people never responded to my request. I have a greatly reduced number of cards to be posted now and only to certain people, that will be so till life intervenes.<br /><br />There are so many calls on our goodwill both here at home and abroad; something just has to go.ZACLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289333819869440699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-6587112472987118782014-12-05T13:09:14.121+00:002014-12-05T13:09:14.121+00:00I was behind a man in the queue this morning who b...I was behind a man in the queue this morning who bought two books of stamps. Merely. He handed over a £20 note and got very little change. It really brought home to me how astronomical postal costs now are. Hurray for email ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-59519101087312516882014-12-04T09:42:16.201+00:002014-12-04T09:42:16.201+00:00Hi Mr F,
I believe the details of the cost of mai...Hi Mr F,<br /><br />I believe the details of the cost of mail requires an honours degree minimum to work out. Even if you do work out one or two features, when you get to the post office counter, it does appear that the staff are primed to trip up the customer by finding ways to place the mail, whatever it is, in a higher charge bracket. Some will follow the hidden rule, immaculately. ZACLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289333819869440699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-57727250567642253962014-12-03T18:44:50.245+00:002014-12-03T18:44:50.245+00:00This doesn't surprise me at all. Postal costs ...This doesn't surprise me at all. Postal costs have become extortionate, and trying to work out what it costs to send anything, anywhere a nightmare. Flighty xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-45474398543719537532014-12-02T17:18:24.901+00:002014-12-02T17:18:24.901+00:00Hi Snowbird,
Costs of postage anywhere are crippl...Hi Snowbird,<br /><br />Costs of postage anywhere are crippling. 53p for a second class letter stamp in the UK and 62p, (I believe) for first class letter stamp, not to mention the layers of complexities that raise the costs rapidly into large letter, first or second class. After that with the same complexities, there are various grades of parcels. <br /><br />In addition, you can send a package/ parcel second class to Western Europe for the princely saving of five pence on first class cost. It really does not take a genius to work out why the charging band has been manipulated to be so ridiculously close. <br /><br />Yet, from Western Europe, (Austria; bits of it border East as well, and from Spain too, I understand) I can send a parcels etc second class much cheaper than the first class cost. They will travel surface mail. It takes longer, sure, but, if you've factored the time for delivery into your calculations, so be it. <br /><br />In summation, I would say that whichever way things are mailed today, we're all assessing values and methods of mailing, on extremely increased costs. xxxZACLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289333819869440699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-63026018066867500282014-12-01T21:45:51.252+00:002014-12-01T21:45:51.252+00:00How frustrating! I find the cost of postage astron...How frustrating! I find the cost of postage astronomical these days, I posted a parcel to the USA and it cost almost £50.....and the price of first class stamps is nothing short of shocking, it totally puts me off sending Christmas cards.xxxSnowbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572555410663928295noreply@blogger.com