Stamps

In article , Michael Chare writes

Too late luv . . . .

Presumably what you mean is "Would it have been...."

I bought a reasonable stock, post free from the source, no queues.

Chris

Too late, I think.

No, I meant what I said!

As did I which is why I have a 10 year supply. However, I have reason to believe that I may be able to acquire some more, at the old price and I am trying to decide what to do.

I wonder how long before Royal Mail is sold off, and no longer accepts stamps sold beforehand? 10 years sounds way too long...

I would have thought that the risk of you misplacing them was too great for the pennies that you will save.

tim

Unless he's like me, in which case ten years' worth of stamps fits in a few books of six in my wallet.

In message , tim.... writes

Pennies? I was selling them by the thousand until Saturday. 1,000 2nds would have been 360 last week, and 500 this week. Not a lot if you use a couple a week, but for small businesses, well worthwhile.

Yes, one of the risks is that the stamps will no longer be honoured properly. I have had this problem with Swedish bank notes!

Ditto: you'll be needing the new TNT stamps 3 years from now -- none o' them crappy old fashioned things with that old woman's face on 'em, mate!

J.

Troll. Shame on the people that replied.

For an election campaign the difference between =A336 and =A350 is 1,000 leaflets.

JGH

So we'll be getting less bumf through the door ? Hard to see a downside really.

The Lib Dems seem to have been buying their stamps cheap - lots of election letters all in envelopes with hand-affixed stamps rather than franked or postage paid impressions.

Don't know which version of the electoral register they're working from as some of the names, addresses and postcodes seem a work of fiction and typed by volunteer non-typists. I've returned about half a dozen to sender. Still, if they want to spend their money ...

Owain

They must be rolling in money up your end if they can afford to spend money on stamps instead of using helpers to do the deliveries.

Surely as candidates they get the polling day register? Or is your local Electoral Registration Office particularly inefficient and keeps lots of dead & moved people on it? Our ERO changed their software ten years ago and had a clearout and found 20,000 out of 380,000 electors no longer existed.

They even have a service agreement with the Coroner's Office so that dead people get taken off straight away, so the register is no never more than one month out of date.

JGH

Or perhaps they don't have many helpers?

It might not have been the Lib Dems - I voted last week and ignore the bumph anyway.

It's so charming to be reminded at election time that stencil duplicating hasn't quite died out.

I think our ERO is actually quite efficient. It's not run by the council any more. And we don't get many 'moved house' problems on election day.

Owain

I post very few letters too, but don't forget they work for parcels too, which most people need to send occasionally at least. And the new 2nd class price is nothing if not convenient for that purpose, at 50p... ie you whack them on in pairs, of exactly a quid. Following a bit of an ebayfest here last week, I'm taking half a dozen parcels of just under

So that's 60 letter's-worth of my stamps cache gone already!

David