95 cent Stamp is gone forever

allthedoyles

For any sellers out there posting large envelopes within Ireland will know that up to 100g cost € 0.95 .

Well, our local Post Office , told us today that from next Tuesday , it will not be possible to buy a € 0.95 stamp.

We used to buy these in bulk lots of say €20 to avoid queing at PO's .

We are now been told that from next Tuesday , these stamps cannot be purchased and if we want to buy a € 0.95 stamp , we must join the queue, and they will give us a sticker of that value to put on the envelope .

There is a machine outside , but it sells only € 0.55 stamps .

To avoid queing is going to cost us an extra € 0.15 , if we wish to use 2 x € 0.55 stamps instead of the € 0.95 .

drunkmonkey

Go in at the right time and there should be no major que, there's nothing to stop you asking for 20 x 95cent stamps when your at the counter.

snubbleste

erm.. Why can you not bulk buy still?
x amount of 55c
x amount of 40c

allthedoyles

snubbleste wrote: »

erm.. Why can you not bulk buy still?
x amount of 55c
x amount of 40c

Because it was confirmed to us by two different employees , that we cannot buy € 0.95 cent stamps from next Tuesday.

Surely they can add 40 + 55 , and if there is a 40 cent stamp , why would they not want to inform us of this ?

If there is a 40c stamp , it will mean that we can now buy 55's outside , but we must still queue for the 40's .

Pacing Mule

Post makes no sense (pardon the pun)

An Post have been rolling out a new system to post offices which replaces traditional stamps with machine printed stickers.

When you say you could previously bulk buy 95 cent stamps how exactly did you do this ? The only way I know of is to ask for multiple 95 cent stamps at the counter. From next week it will be multiple 95 cent stickers.

If I'm unaware of a bulk pack of 95 cent stamps being sold by vending machine or similar then I apologise

Our man in Havana

You can't buy the stickers in bulk as they are only valid for posting on the day of printing.

Pacing Mule

Haddockman wrote: »

You can't buy the stickers in bulk as they are only valid for posting on the day of printing.

That's the old sticker system which printed a date on the stamp. This was always there along with tradtional stamps.

What An Post are doing now is rolling out a new system which prints stamps as self adhesive demoninations of whatever the teller programs in. The roll itself is a a generic picture on the left hand side with a blank right hand side which the printer then prints onto be it 55c, 95c, €7.50 or whatever. It's not dated so therefore doesn't have the same "restrictions" on posting that day. (the restrictions themselves are not really enforced - I've never ever heard of anyones post not being delivered because it was sent on a day different than the date - I've personally sent post with stickers dated from months previously with no issues.)

The new system being rolled out is the same system that the automatic postal points use. If you've ever used them you can print as many of one stamp as you want.