Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps

lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Patch@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To send things in the post?

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You do that in the UK?

    We do absolutely buy a fuck ton of shit online and post some parcels here and there, but actual letters are extremely rare nowadays.

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    • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A postal service is vital for a society to function. A couple of things I’ve sent in the past few years: marriage forms to the registry office, returning old drivers’ licenses and passports, sending signed docs to my solicitor when buying a house. Less relevant - birthday cards, thank you cards, xmas cards; I think these things have a “personal touch” value which is lost in an email.

      I think the prepaid business envelopes make sense when you are receiving post but private individuals need to be able to send things back without having bespoke, bulk postage deals with Royal Mail. Have noticed that employment contracts are now done with e-signatures if not in person these days but many legal docs require the same piece of paper to be signed.

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    • ggppjj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stop using your own personal experiences to talk for an entire nation of people, I send my sister postcards all the time and even buy specific stamps for them.

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      • lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The mail volume is decreasing quite quickly though. Letter volume has decreased by 65% since 2010 and most of those letters are probably not from private individuals.

        The national postal company recently decided to only empty postal boxes every other weekday instead of every weekday to the boxes often being empty.

        Before that they also decided to only deliver mail every other weekday instead of every weekday. First class parcels are still delivered every weekday.

        Sending letters is uncommon so I’m just surprised that there is a black market for stamps.

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• FatLegTed@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People that live in the world outside a computer. They send birthday cards and things. And write with pens.

  Step outside, sometimes it's quite pleasant.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also a lot of people who do use computers! Lots of people selling their stuff of eBay or Etsy will be sending things in the post. Way less letters than the old days, but way more parcels (I think).

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you send parcels with stamps?

      And yes people send way less letters now. Our national postal company has been scaling back on letters and normal posts for quite some time now. Because suprise suprise no one sends letters anymore except different governments and even then there are now electronic ways to receive those letters.

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can, yes. Also a lot of the time the things you’re sending are small enough to fit in a letter or large letter.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol, is the UK like that? Where only computer people have figured out SMS, email, chat apps, telephone and so on?

    Here the only letters that actual people send are the very occasional Christmas/birthday card and maybe an event invitation for something like a wedding. No one writes letters that actually tell something important. I can’t see why anyone would bother with pirating stamps.

    Hell we can even send letters without buying a stamp, we can buy a postage in an app which gives us a code to write on the letter.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Money.

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