Global Matters Weekly – Inflation Licked Bonds

 In Weekly Digest

Before the 4th of April this year, it cost 85 pence to send a letter first class in the UK. After that date you have needed to stick another 10 pence stamp onto your letter to maintain its first-class status. But if you had a ‘1st’ class stamp knocking about in a drawer, it effectively increased in value by an inflation busting 11.7% this year (and 11.8% the year before that).

When it comes to inflation though, postage costs are probably not front and centre of people’s minds.

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