Another question for somebody in England (cost of stamps)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 87593

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
<june.diamanti at b...> wrote:

June:
> First off, the previous prices advised (by Geoff I think) were a 
bit 
> out of date:  the standard first class stamp is now 28 pence and 
the 
> second class is indeed 20 pence.

Geoff:
Not entirely surprising as I make it a point of principle never to 
use first class letter stamps; addresses can either ewait an extra 
day or I'll email a lot of them! I do send packages first class but 
that's a different tariff.

> The episode of the Weasley's letter being covered in stamps made me 
> laugh long and loud when I read it because it echoed a true life 
> incident I remembered.  I was working in a very small office at the 
> time and was left in sole charge one day. I had to get an important 
> package sent out - only problem acute shortage of stamps and no 
cash 
> to buy them with.  So I ended up using every stamp in the office, 
> some of which were very low in value (one or two pence stamps).  
> This meant that the package I sent was covered literally in stamps 
> of all values.  The Weasley letter must have looked just like this 
> one.  

Geoff:
This was own reaction to Pip!Squeak's calculations in message 87589 
where the cost was calculated using first clss stamps. The letter 
could be covered with low value stamps - values down to single 
figures in pence are available (to make up amounts as I said before) 
so the whole envelope could be covered in a lot less than £2.52.