Had any 2nd class mail recently? No, we didn’t think so. It appears the Post Office has stopped all deliveries of 2nd Class Mail and will hold them until January 5th 2027. That has been decided as the annual 2nd Class delivery date every year going forward.
With the price of a 1st class stamp recently rising to £8.30 the Post Office wants to encourage people to use that instead of the cheaper £5.20 2nd class service.
All 2nd class mail will be held in several huge warehouses until January each year when UK addresses will receive a box containing the previous year’s mail on the 5th. If an address has more than will fit in a standard cardboard box the recipient will be charged an extra £25 for each additional box required.
OUTDATED SERVICE
In a further effort to discourage customers using the 2nd class service the post office will no longer automatically offer 2nd class on its website or in branches and it will be up to the customer to specifically request it.
Post Office spokesperson Tristia Shise spoke to Newsishy about the change:
“2nd class is an outdated service and we have noticed that people only use it because it’s cheaper. That’s frustrating for us as more often than not it gets delivered in the same amount of time a 1st class letter is.
The goal here is to make 2nd class so crap that people hate it.”
There’s quite a big difference in the cost of 1st and 2nd class, people need to save as much money as they can at the moment:
“Yes, that’s our issue. We need to take that cheaper option away or they will just keep using it. We will not allow our shareholders to suffer just because people have a choice. We estimate it will be 3 years until we are able to say to the government we can scrap 2nd class because nobody wants to use it anymore. Mission accomplished!”
