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.
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.
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.
lud@lemm.ee 6 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.
steeznson@lemmy.world 6 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.
ggppjj@lemmy.world 6 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.
lud@lemm.ee 6 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.