Cost of first-class stamp to rise again to £1.35, says Royal Mail | Royal Mail

The cost of first and second-class stamps is to go up again next month, after Royal Mail announced price rises of 10p a letter.

The fourth increase in two years will take the price of a first-class stamp to £1.35 and the cost of the second-class service to 85p and will come into effect on 2 April.

In March 2022, first-class stamps cost 85p and second-class stamps were 66p, but there has since been a run of increases, most recently in October.

Royal Mail said it had “sought to keep price increases as low as possible in the face of increasing cost pressures and wage increases, declining…