{"id":74200,"date":"2025-04-07T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74200"},"modified":"2025-04-07T07:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:39:51","slug":"brits-brand-royal-mail-stamp-price-hikes-unfair-as-cost-soars-by-76p-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/brits-brand-royal-mail-stamp-price-hikes-unfair-as-cost-soars-by-76p-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits brand Royal Mail stamp price hikes &#8216;unfair&#8217; as cost soars by 76p in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Ccwuj.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"First and second class stamps have soared in price over the last five years\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than two-thirds of Brits think price hikes in first-class stamps over the past five years are unfair, a survey has found. And first-class stamp will now cost \u00a31.70 from today (Mon) &#8211; more than double the 76p it cost in 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/brits-brand-royal-mail-stamp-price-hikes-unfair-as-cost-soars-by-76p-in-five-years\/ar-AA1Cpoas?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=8c0bb38edfa8462c91f56ade27bd9ef7&amp;ei=25\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than two-thirds of Brits think price hikes in first-class stamps over the past five years are unfair, a survey has found&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/First-class-stamp.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74201,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74200\/revisions\/74201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}