cost of a stamp??

[Nicos]

I've just found some second class stamps- and they just say 2nd on them.
Please can someone tell me the actual value of a 2nd class stamp??
ta xx

[BrideXIII]

27p for a letter ( under 100g)

they go by size and weight now more than wieght alone, so watch what you are sending with them.

[smallblueplanet]

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/c...7&catId=400030

[Nicos]

Thanks...so if I used 10 x2nd class stamps on a parcel (£2.70)- that would be fine for covering the cost of a parcel for £2.51??

[BrideXIII]

depending on the size of the parcel yes, they do this measuring thing now about it going through a letter box, but if you have had it wieghed and it needs £2.51 they should be fine.

[Nicos]

Thanks- it's so I can buy some of Stacey Steve's wooden flowers...and I've just found a book of English stamps lurking in my desk!!!

[BrideXIII]

like i said, depends on the size of the parcel, But SS will know . so you should be ok.

[smallblueplanet]

Thanks...so if I used 10 x2nd class stamps on a parcel (£2.70)- that would be fine for covering the cost of a parcel for £2.51??

Its got the 'letter/package' sizes on my link.

[Nicos]

Its got the 'letter/package' sizes on my link.

Yep - I noticed- thanks....problem is it's not me posting it!

[Alison]

Had a row at the post office earlier today after having a thing through the letter box yesterday saying that I'd got a letter to pick up which was under stamped by 15p therefore would cost me £1.15 to get off them. Anyway, turned up and it was a very light A5 sized envelope which should have been OK with a normal stamp but they still refused. Weighed it when I got home and it was less than the limit but there wasn't a lot I could do about it by then and suppose it is a lovely card but is it just me thinking that this is a bit of a rip off?

[BrideXIII]

Had a row at the post office earlier today after having a thing through the letter box yesterday saying that I'd got a letter to pick up which was under stamped by 15p therefore would cost me £1.15 to get off them. Anyway, turned up and it was a very light A5 sized envelope which should have been OK with a normal stamp but they still refused. Weighed it when I got home and it was less than the limit but there wasn't a lot I could do about it by then and suppose it is a lovely card but is it just me thinking that this is a bit of a rip off?

its getting a bit silly isn't it, they probrably tried to put it through the measurer sideways

[jackie j]

Last christmas we had a card from a cousin who lives 6 miles away from me with underpaid postage and it cost us over £1 to collect it, the reason they gave was it was too big by a fraction, at this time of the year you would think the post office would let them through. No wonder people only use the post office if they really have to.

[Two_Sheds]

I have had things weighed and measured at the PO, and the recipient has STILL been charged for under-postage.
It IS a rip-off.