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bPost now charges €9.90 for registered letters. Any competition? (fedia.io)
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Both stamp prices and registered letter prices have been taking giant leaps. A charge of €9.85 for confirmed registered letters is not #inflation, it’s crazy.

Question is, are there any alternatives? #AskFedi

Surely all the food couriers in #Brussels would be keen to get paid that much per envelope & deliver it faster than bPost.

(edit) There is a digital alternative (Digiconnect) but it has some issues:

  1. Clicking “subscribe now” only brings you to a login page. There is no registration page.

  2. #Digiconnect uses MS Outlook, so you must trust #Microsoft with all your correspondence. Yikes!

So I am still looking for an alternative.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Update--

One option if the destination is close to you, you can deliver letters yourself and simply ask the recipient to sign for it. Companies and orgs have no issue with this.