Another question for somebody in England (cost of stamps)

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 87620

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
<june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, abbet659 at h... wrote:
How much is a stamp, is it the same size as a US stamp?  Just 
wondering how much it would cost to cover an envelope with stamps.  
Seems to me that would cost quite a bit of money for a poor Wizard 
family, so maybe they made their own stamps.  If they can make 
stamps, couldn't they make muggle money, have somebody launder the 
money, then take the real money to Gringotts and exchange it for 
wizard money?
Abbet

Belated reply to this, now that I have been allowed out of the 
kitchen.  
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out of date:  the standard first class stamp is now 28 pence and the 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.
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.  
This episode in the books just must have been modelled on a real 
life incident, I think.
June

Hello all, Fred Waldrop here;

I too have mailed a letter like this.
I can remember when I was a kid,(late 70's) my mother sent me in the 
post office to mail a letter, but it did not have a stamp. She gave 
me the money to buy a stamp, but to my surprise, when I went to the 
machine, there was a whole bunch of 1 cent stamps on top.
I put the money back in my pocket, put the 22, 1 cent stamps on the 
front (and back), and mailed it. I thought my mom would be happy 
about how I saved her some money, instead, she was mad because she 
said it would look "cheap" done that way. 
Me, I just wanted the letter to get there, which it did. So, I did 
not see a problem.
Fred