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Russ Thornton's avatar

In my experience - and likely yours too, Nick - we can't remind clients (or anyone else who will listen) of this fact often enough:

"Purchasing power is the only metric that matters."

Another entertaining read...

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Nick Lincoln's avatar

Thanks, Russ. And today in the UK the price of a Royal Mail first class stamp went up by 10p, to 135p. Thirty years ago the exact same item with the exact same utility was 24p.

Petrifying!

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Russ Thornton's avatar

Here in the colonies, we've seen about a double over the last 30 years:

https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/domestic-letter-rates-since-1863.htm

And our postal service is still a money-losing endeavor...

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