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Old 12-10-21, 18:10
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Just think how much it would cost to buy 300 stamps nowadays, though, OC!
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Lol, Kate! Do you know, I can't remember the cost of postage being much of a problem back then, although I think we probably hand delivered quite a few. It certainly is a consideration now, I mutter "that's thirteen shillings in old money" on the odd occasion I have to post a letter.

Wasn't postage a bit cheaper if you didn't seal the envelope or am I dreaming that?

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I think I make more fuss about money these days. When I was a child, a stamp was 3d, a paperback 3s 6d, a packet of fags 3s 2d, a bottle of whisky 30s and a gallon of petrol 4s 11d.

Now Stamp 85p, paperbacks £9, fags £???, whisky £20, petrol - say £6

The increase in books and stamps are not hugely dissimilar to each other. Petrol, however, is not half so expensive, while as for whisky - and I am comparing like for like here - that is astonishingly cheap.

Oh, and yes postcards were 2 1/2d and I think greetings cards were similarly cheap - but of course, if you stuck them down, that might mean there was a postal order inside!
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I do remember saying "if cigarettes go up to five shillings, then I'll pack it in ". I didn't of course. I also remember going to the butcher and asking for a nice leg of lamb, about eleven shillings please". That did 3 day's dinners for two of us!

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