Business: Royal Mail Postage Price Increase

Last updated on April 30, 2010

Following on from my previous post about where my money goes, I thought it’ll be worth reminding people that tomorrow (Tuesday the 6th of April) Royal Mail* postage prices increase (* = Royal Mail is a “private company” wholly owned by the UK Government).

Rate	New price	Old price
1st Class Letter (up to 100g)	41p	39p
2nd Class Letter (up to 100g)	32p	30p
1st Class Large Letter (up to 100g)	66p	61p
2nd Class Large Letter (up to 100g)	51p	47p
1st Class Packet of 101-250g	172p	162p
2st Class Packet of 101-250g	151p	141p
1st Class Packet of 251-500g	224p	214p
2st Class Packet of 251-500g	195p	185p

If you are sending more than 1,000 letters on a single day, you can get a discount of 1.5% – if you are sending over 20,000 you get 5.5%. However, if you are sending around 100,000 letters in a batch and they are presorted then the cost is just 15.85p: but if you are sending that many letters you have an option not to use Royal Mail (you can use UKMail etc): however, the small business person and normal consumers don’t have that option and have to pay Royal Mail’s ever increasing prices.