SHOW ME YOUR POST OFFICE

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Comment by Hélène LAGACHE on December 12, 2022 at 6:35am

And I want to send letters with beautiful stamps (French artists, engravers are paid for this and I like it!) all over the world. I don’t want to use e-mail messages!

Comment by Hélène LAGACHE on December 12, 2022 at 6:31am

Monster, unfortunately yes, this policy of privatization of public services so harmful, affects many countries. I fear that in the near future it will no longer be possible to send mail-art.

Comment by Monster A GoGo on December 11, 2022 at 6:53am

Helene, it is the same here. it was announced that our postal prices are rising again in January as well---and we already had a postal rate hike earlier this year.

Comment by Hélène LAGACHE on December 11, 2022 at 6:41am

I just learned that postal rates are increasing (still!) in France. And especially for letters sent abroad.
Already there is only one rate to send a mail to Belgium and Singapore... A few years ago there was a rate for European countries and a rate for the rest of the world.
And from 1 January 2023 the price for a letter sent internationally; for a weight up to 20grs will increase from 1.65 euros to 1.80 euros!
I am very unhappy, especially given the continuing deterioration of postal services. Everything is done to discourage citizens from writing so that the Post Office can focus on more lucrative business services.

Comment by Hélène LAGACHE on November 25, 2022 at 8:46am

We are also lucky in France to still have post offices. But it is mostly in big cities. In the countryside they closed and in a general way the service deteriorated.

Comment by Mail Art Martha on November 23, 2022 at 6:34am

This happened since the right wing gbovernment ( that is a lucky typo, bovine government suits them) we  have had for 12 years sold the Royal Mail. Infuriatingly, still called Royal Mail.

Comment by Maxima Strange on November 23, 2022 at 12:36am

Yes! I have always thought of them as a kind of sacred space. 

Comment by Maxima Strange on November 22, 2022 at 8:34pm

That is a shame, Mail Art Martha . :(

Comment by Mail Art Martha on November 22, 2022 at 8:22pm

Not such luck, it is only a patisserie now. as many more small post offices it has gone with the wind of greed. The British PO is only interested in packets, more profit.

This was our nice  large local PO, at the corner of my road. 

We still got the postbox, they are disappearing also.

Now we have to go to a book shop to get postage, etc.

Comment by Hélène LAGACHE on November 3, 2022 at 7:59am

A post office where you can enjoy coffee and pastries.. the dream!

;-)

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