Postage rates will increase in Luxembourg
Currently set at 0.80 euro cents, the price for sending mail to Luxembourg will increase from 1 September. An increase that will affect all postal service prices.
The announcement went relatively unnoticed but it could be important for followers of epistolary exchanges. POST Luxembourg announced at the end of last week an increase in its postal rates from 1uh next September.
Up to 33% increase
If the prices had not changed since May 2019, they will therefore experience a significant increase next month. With 0.20 cents more (i.e. +25%), the price of sending standard mail to Luxembourg will hit the euro’s symbolic mark next month.
In its wake, the standard letter to a European country will cost 1.40 euros, i.e. 35 cents more than currently (+33.3%) and a standard mail to another country in the world will cost 1.75 euro (+25%).
As a reminder, POST’s fee schedule includes six levels : mail/shipments up to a maximum of 50 g, then those of 51 g up to 500 g, from 501 g to 2 kg (with two distinct categories depending on the size of the objects sent), then up to 10 kg and finally those between 10 kg and 30 kg.
Please note that the price for national shipments will also increase on the 1uh September for foundations and non-profit associations. If they will continue to benefit from preferential rates, their postage will nevertheless increase, rising to 0.50 euros (half of the “classic” rate).
The reasons for these tariff adjustments »
In its communication to explain these different increases, the POST group advances the need “ D’ensure the sustainability and quality of the universal service ” And this ” against a backdrop of continued structural decline in mail volumes and rising costs, including labour, infrastructure and transportation “.
The company also advances its desire to ” continue to innovate and adapt to the uses and needs of its customers “, at a time when the number of letters has been falling for several years.
Thus, 190 million letters had circulated in 2016, against “only” 155 million four years later in 2020. A reality that we find in Luxembourg households that have not used an average of six stamps in 2021.