tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455700514377143758.post4543304989021835753..comments2024-03-28T07:00:06.844+00:00Comments on Now Appearing: The universal postal mythBrian Clegghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723555872580740773noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455700514377143758.post-34411054371170182002012-04-27T09:09:44.577+01:002012-04-27T09:09:44.577+01:00All good points - as I said it was top of the head...All good points - as I said it was top of the head stuff, definitely needs refinement, but the main thing is that they always assume that all they can do is tweak things, and that's not true.<br /><br />I love the idea of prices being multiples of a base stamp - the pricing is currently much too complicated.Brian Clegghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12723555872580740773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455700514377143758.post-56030070940777509952012-04-26T21:23:17.147+01:002012-04-26T21:23:17.147+01:00Brian
I need to refine your arguments above in so...Brian<br /><br />I need to refine your arguments above in some small ways but I broadly agree with your views - the Post Office don't seem to have done any creative thinking about developing their services; instead they've simply put up their prices and left it at that - oh, and create some complicated pricing structure based on different weights and size formats, and whether or not you use stamps or franking machines.<br /><br />My view has always been that they need to eliminate second class post and send everything by one class; a letter with a first class stamp travels the same route as one with a second class stamp so differentiating on time introduces an unecessary (and probably expensive) process that isn't required in the overall scheme of things.<br /><br />As for your suggested "local" services, using only the same post code will cause a problem at the edges of each area as you will get examples of "country" wide postage rates being applied to a letter which progresses by perhaps only a street or two; easier would be for adjacent post codes to be at local rates with London as one post code rather than many as today.<br /><br />As for the receiver paying, dare I suggest that this would wipe out at a stroke all direct mail (a bad thing if you run the Post Office, a good thing if you're the recipient!) <br /><br />And one other thing, the range of different value stamps needs to be reduced so that all postage rates should be a multiple of the "base" stamp - so a local stamp would be 20p, a country stamp would be 40p and an international one would be 60p for Europe and 80p for the rest.<br /><br />XTDXtofersdadnoreply@blogger.com