The price of a stamp

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Sir, – At the rate that An Post is raising prices (“An Post raises standard stamp prices for fourth time in less than three years”, News, January 11th), it might be wise, as part of your investment portfolio, to purchase a book of 10 national stamps. – Yours, etc,

DAVID CURRAN,

Knocknacarra,

Galway.

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Sir, – There is little we can do about the increase in the price of a postage stamp. We’re licked. – Yours, etc,

TOM GILSENAN,

Dublin 9.

Sir, – “Innovation on par with the best in Europe.” This forms part of the justification by An Post for its latest increase in the cost of postage.

Who are they fooling? One has only to check out the services available across the border and in Britain from Royal Mail to see what real innovation looks like. We are light years behind.

An Post points to its digital stamp (whose cost it didn’t increase, probably out of embarrassment). What nonsense! You sign up to an app, pay 48 per cent more than for a basic stamp, and you then write a nine-letter code on the top of the envelope! Write it down wrong or have poor writing skills? And this is An Post’s idea “innovation on par with the best in Europe?” They need to get out more.

The people of An Post are the beating heart and soul of the service and they are an amazing group of people, people who deserve the same praise – and reward – as the workers who got us through Covid.

In truth, there is no justification for this increase and certainly no justification to say that it is funding innovation. – Yours, etc,

T GERARD BENNETT,

Bunbrosna,

Co Westmeath.