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Post by Mia on Feb 22, 2020 18:29:46 GMT
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Post by Steph Walford on Feb 22, 2020 20:30:25 GMT
Thanks for this @mia ... and they wonder why snail mail is on the decline x
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2020 20:53:50 GMT
Probably a good thing I don't work in a post office now....I can image the vexations thrown at the staff t those price hikes! Thankfully I have a couple of pay days before then so will do a mega stock-up of 1st & 2nd class.
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Post by ginny on Feb 22, 2020 22:39:18 GMT
That is expensive Sorry to hear this - really spoils the fun, doesn't it!
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Post by voiren on Feb 22, 2020 22:44:21 GMT
Done some stocking up... (I wish they'd do more stamp sheets of the non-fandom ranges, and second class non-Christmas sheets!)
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Post by Mia on Jun 27, 2020 20:15:09 GMT
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Post by allanorn on Jun 27, 2020 23:42:47 GMT
It’s likely due to the change in terminal fees the USA was able to extract from the Universal Postal Union. Basically the USA was going to pull out of the UPU as the USPS was spending more to deliver cheap postal packets than it was to send them from China/Hong Kong, and the current administration wanted to put a stop to that. The USA can now set its own fees; I think we’re something close to 50% of the global mail market.
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Post by radellaf on Jun 29, 2020 0:14:53 GMT
Well that might stink for my $2 Chinese pens. I like my "free" small packet rate, though I always wondered how they could possibly manage to do that. Costs me more to send a letter 700mi north to Toronto than it does to ship a bunch of electronics and pen stuff from China. Albeit, I'd hope my letter doesn't take 6-10 weeks.
We'll see what it does to Diamine's £5 & £10 worldwide shipping fees. Not that there are many Diamine colors left for me to order. As long as the USA is still charging around £6.50 for Diamine 30mL, and that may go up, it still probably will pay to order direct.
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Post by michelleg on Jun 30, 2020 17:37:23 GMT
Do other countries have something like the U.S. forever stamp? Where you buy it at the current rate, but it's still valid even when the price goes up...?
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Post by christyotwisty on Jun 30, 2020 17:47:20 GMT
Do other countries have something like the U.S. forever stamp? Where you buy it at the current rate, but it's still valid even when the price goes up...? Canada does, for domestic postage only.
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Post by Mia on Jun 30, 2020 18:07:48 GMT
We have 1st & 2nd class stamps. Also, there are postage labels but I don't know that much about them (post and go), valid as 1st, or 2nd, or international, with weight limit stated.
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Post by ginny on Jun 30, 2020 20:51:12 GMT
Do other countries have something like the U.S. forever stamp? Where you buy it at the current rate, but it's still valid even when the price goes up...? Germany doesn't have that, unfortunately.
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Post by Mia on Aug 2, 2020 22:30:12 GMT
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Post by davidv on Aug 3, 2020 0:02:16 GMT
Wow, I didn’t realize you had such small weight categories for mail. I think our lightest weight category goes up to 30g for lettermail.
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Post by ginny on Aug 3, 2020 8:19:19 GMT
Wow, I didn’t realize you had such small weight categories for mail. I think our lightest weight category goes up to 30g for lettermail. Here in Germany, the lightest weight category is 20g (plus the letter has to be standard size, so no square envelopes etc., just rectangular - anything else costs extra). That's for domestic mail (0.80 EUR) and for international mail (1.10 EUR). The next category is up to 50g (0.95 EUR domestic, 1.70 EUR international). I try to remain within those limits. It gets very expensive otherwise...
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