Would it be financially sensible to buy some 2nd class stamps at the old price given that I am unlikely to want to use them for 10 years. The alternative would be to keep the money in a savings account where I pay tax.
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.
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.
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 ...
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the Coroner's Office so that dead people get taken off straight away, so the register is no never more than one month out of date.
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
2kg each to the post office today - posting price is 5.30 GBP, and I've made up most of that by bunging 10 2nd class stamps on each.
So that's 60 letter's-worth of my stamps cache gone already!
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