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This sounds like nonsense given the massive increase after 30 April -- 50p for 2nd class, 60p for 1st class and 95p fee for recorded.
However! I've had my calculator out and if you stock up as many stamps as you can afford now (and plenty of 2nd class in particular), it'll be 5p cheaper after April 30th when the prices go up than it is now to send a Recorded letter.
As your maths teacher used to say, "Show your workings out in the margin ..."
Currently
1st class stamp = 46p + Recorded/Signed For fee = 77p = Total = £1.23
2nd class stamp = 36p + Recorded/Signed For fee = 77p = Total = £1.13
After 30 April
1st class stamp = 60p + Recorded/Signed For fee = 95p = Total = £1.55
2nd class stamp = 50p + Recorded/Signed For fee = 95p = Total = £1.45
If you stock up now to use after 30 April
1st class stamp at old price = 46p
+ Recorded/Signed For fee = (95p) stick on two 2nd class stamps at 50p each totalling £1 (which have cost you 36p x 2 = 72p)
= Total cost = £1.18 -- so bizarrely 5p cheaper than now!
2nd class as above would cost £1.08, also 5p cheaper.
You'd still have to go to the post office to do the signed-for thing, but effectively the postage is paid.
This is all on my assumption (which I think must be right) that a 1st or 2nd class stamp is counted as per its monetary value when you use them for anything above a standard letter. E.g. if I stick a first class stamp on an envelope that I want to send to France, then take it to be weighed at the post office, I'd pay whatever it costs minus the 46p current price of a first class stamp that I've already stuck on the envelope.
I'm a bit of an anorak for stocking up on things I use when they're on offer, so I'll definitely be doing this!
However! I've had my calculator out and if you stock up as many stamps as you can afford now (and plenty of 2nd class in particular), it'll be 5p cheaper after April 30th when the prices go up than it is now to send a Recorded letter.
As your maths teacher used to say, "Show your workings out in the margin ..."
Currently
1st class stamp = 46p + Recorded/Signed For fee = 77p = Total = £1.23
2nd class stamp = 36p + Recorded/Signed For fee = 77p = Total = £1.13
After 30 April
1st class stamp = 60p + Recorded/Signed For fee = 95p = Total = £1.55
2nd class stamp = 50p + Recorded/Signed For fee = 95p = Total = £1.45
If you stock up now to use after 30 April
1st class stamp at old price = 46p
+ Recorded/Signed For fee = (95p) stick on two 2nd class stamps at 50p each totalling £1 (which have cost you 36p x 2 = 72p)
= Total cost = £1.18 -- so bizarrely 5p cheaper than now!
2nd class as above would cost £1.08, also 5p cheaper.
You'd still have to go to the post office to do the signed-for thing, but effectively the postage is paid.
This is all on my assumption (which I think must be right) that a 1st or 2nd class stamp is counted as per its monetary value when you use them for anything above a standard letter. E.g. if I stick a first class stamp on an envelope that I want to send to France, then take it to be weighed at the post office, I'd pay whatever it costs minus the 46p current price of a first class stamp that I've already stuck on the envelope.
I'm a bit of an anorak for stocking up on things I use when they're on offer, so I'll definitely be doing this!
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