Do they want to stop us from sending letters?

Sending off a letter doesn’t grant complete protection of your data and privacy. Nowadays it is quite normal to have a camera watching you as you send off letters and packets at a Royal Mail post office – look up from where you’re standing and no doubt, you will discover a surveillance camera above your head.

Sending packets abroad means that you now have to give your personal address and name which is saved in their computer system. And if you don’t happen to posess special stamps, since 2023 usual stamps contain a barcode allowing each stamp to be traceable through the postal system and connecting it to the Royal Mail apps. You are being watched and your data is being gathered – even when sending off a handwritten letter.

But there are ways to go round this. You can still buy special stamps without digital code and pop them into one of those red letter boxes on the road.

Want to write us a letter or pay in cash? Read on here…

Now they are once again pushing prices on 1st stamps. By October the price of a first class stamp will rise to £1.65. That’s an increase of 30%. Since 1980 the prices for stamps have continuously risen. The price differences go from a 10p in 1980 to 85p now in 2024 2nd class stamp.

Do they want us to stop sending letters?

Of course it suits the agenda if people stop writing letters, which are, despite the changes mentioned above, still more private than text-messaging or writing an email. The shift towards everything digital continues, and once every message and text is online, everything you write will be traceable and easily controlled.

See how prices for stamps have changed since 1980 (scroll down to see the chart).