{"id":234,"date":"2006-08-21T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T11:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2009-01-25T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T17:51:20","slug":"royal-mails-new-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/royal-mails-new-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail&#8217;s New Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class='alignright' src='\/blog\/wp-content\/RoyalMail.gif' alt='Royal Mail' \/>From today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmail.com\/portal\/rm\/content2?catId=400105&#038;mediaId=21100324\">cost of sending a letter or packet in the UK is changing<\/a>. Now I&#8217;m not getting involved in the reasons or justifications of this change, however, I can see it causing more than a few problems during the next few weeks.<br \/>\nThere is much discussion about the lack of advertising regarding this change and that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/5265898.stm\">not all post offices are ready for it<\/a>, but what happens from today for incorrectly stamped letters\/parcels? Will the Royal Mail be applying surcharges to received post, or will it be returning it to the sender? What about those who don&#8217;t use the post office to send mail and choose to just go to a post box? I can see a lot of post being sent underpaid according to the new rules. Royal Mail say that <em>&#8220;in the immediate post-introduction period Royal Mail will be flexible in terms of not surcharging customers who have underpaid postage&#8221;<\/em>. Expect to get lots of cards through the door saying that the &#8216;local&#8217; delivery office is holding an item of mail which requires payment due to underpaid postage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today, the cost of sending a letter or packet in the UK is changing. Now I&#8217;m not getting involved in the reasons or justifications of this change, however, I can see it causing more than a few problems during the next few weeks. There is much discussion about the lack of advertising regarding this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-royal-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}