{"id":129105,"date":"2024-09-06T14:34:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/royal-mail-hikes-first-class-stamps-to-1-65\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:34:27","slug":"royal-mail-hikes-first-class-stamps-to-1-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/royal-mail-hikes-first-class-stamps-to-1-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail hikes first-class stamps to \u00a31.65"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/d6d2\/live\/5fcb2fb0-6c5b-11ef-b970-9f202720b57a.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Royal Mail hikes first-class stamps to \u00a31.65\" title=\"Royal Mail hikes first-class stamps to \u00a31.65\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Royal Mail has announced it will hike the price of first-class stamps by 30p due to &#8220;very real and urgent&#8221; financial challenges.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The increase, which will kick in from 7 October, will see the price of a first-class stamp rise to \u00a31.65p, while second-class stamps will remain at 85p.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The company said it was facing pressure from declining letter volumes and rising business costs in maintaining the one-price-goes-anywhere universal service.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It has called for the service terms, under which it is legally obliged to deliver letters six days per week, Monday to Saturday, and parcels Monday to Friday, to be reformed.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;We always consider price increases very carefully. However, when letter volumes have declined by two-thirds since their peak, the cost of delivering each letter inevitably increases,&#8221; said Nick Landon, chief commercial officer at Royal Mail.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvge8yn77rzo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Mail has announced it will hike the price of first-class stamps by 30p due to &#8220;very real and urgent&#8221; financial challenges. The increase, which will kick in from 7 October, will see the price of a first-class stamp rise to \u00a31.65p, while second-class stamps will remain at 85p. The company said it was facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/d6d2\/live\/5fcb2fb0-6c5b-11ef-b970-9f202720b57a.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[58484,5397,22533,2923,29046],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129107,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129105\/revisions\/129107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}