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How much did you pay when you bought a 1st class stamp for the first time ?
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I am so old that I cannot possibly remember that far back!
Seriously, can anyone remember that? Even if it was only five or ten years ago??
First pint was about 90p; first box of 20 cigs about ??1.90
I've no idea how much I paid for my first stamp, but in my head they still cost 26p. Don't disillusion me, please.
I can remember a first class stamp being 10p. Cheapest pint I bought in a pub was 82p.
13 pence seems familiar... probably around 1978 / 79.
Or maybe that was second class... really can't remember that far back!
Here are some graphs.
Even further back - I can remember the postman delivering on Christmas Day as it was a weekday - my Dad invited him in for a drink which he accepted and it was obviously not his first one of the day.
Pre decimal for me. I can still remember nipping up to the shops to get some of the new money.
A great opportunity for crooks to con old ladies. "yes luv, 10p = 10d (5.5p actually)
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re postmen at Christmas, was that in Scotland? on remember being told that they have only been celebrating Christmas in Scotland since the war.
I remember about 18p which fits with the graph from literatin.
Big jump in the prices the last few years, didn't realise 1st was now 60p!!
Perhaps the jump above inflation is due to the fact that most people don't send letters anymore? It's all email, tweets and IM these days. No birthday cards just bloody FB messages. Perhaps 20yrs time there will be no mail service other than courier for business/official stuff.
I honestly can't remember but the graph says about 12p, although my first pint was 48p
I remember getting three pints for a £1,it was in the British Legion but still
3p! that was about 1972 i think
What's a stamp? Is that something you used to have to put on those paper emails?
Can't remember but it do recall that a bus ride to school was 5p but as I was as tight then as now I used to walk instead!
does anyone remember when phone boxes had A and B buttons in so you could get your money back? (really showing my age
) Oh, and actual paper telephone directories?
Yes - and we would press button B in case a previous user had forgotten to.
Four old pennies if I remember rightly!
26p I think
Why have they increased from 27p in 2002 to 60p in 2012?!
Can't remember stamps but my first gallon of petrol cost 7 shillings (35p in todays money)
is anyone going to come out with the old 'four black jacks for a penny' line?. . .Oh whoops
first class stamp = 1 pence
it was black with a picture of a young Queen Victoria on it
I can remember three pints for a pound
I have a better 'old telephone' story.
In Australia, the emergency number is 000.
Now think about the old phones, the ones that you had to wind around the dial and wait for it to go back to its original position before doing the next number ..... where were the zeros? They were at the very end .....
So imagine an emergency, you would have to put your finger on the zero, then wind it all the way around, wait for it to go back, then repeat twice more to get connected.
If you were in a burning building you would be dead by the time you could even dial the emergency number.