From today 60p is the Postal Rate for a First Class Letter in the UK

What a disgrace, but do they really think they are going to get anywhere with such an exhorbitant increase (14p extra) from yesterday ....(2/8d or thereabouts in old money. For 2/8d we used to get a bottle of Milk, a loaf of Bread, a Pint of Beer and change!) So what will we get 'extra' for the 14 pence?

Answer, probably nothing! They put the post in the wrong letter box, and ask neighbours to take it if it's too big to put through the target letter box, rather than take it back to the Post Office. The post often ends up wet, dirty, creased and often late (a Second Class Service anyway).

What should we do about it? Stop posting letters, birthday cards etc and let them put the price up yet again! They will soon realize that the days of Dick Turpin are over!

What do you say members? 

It's sad in ways...because you can talk to an friend over the computer...but you'll never have something to keep forever in the exchange...as we lose our e-mail accounts off an on due to others often or changing over to another computer or they stop with an web site some where down the line...or change it..archives are lost.  When something is mailed and received through the mail it can be kept forever most often.

Use to have an cousin of my mother's that wrote short lines on post cards to mail out when she got to work ...to keep in touch...nice to receive...use to only cost an penney or so to send it also. Now all that is gone...and so is she...I have but her cheerry and happy "good morning" messages to read though now and then and think of her.