Stamp benefits from Royal Mail

Royal Mail will sell Christmas stamps at last year’s prices to people on benefit.

Customers receiving pension credit, employment and support allowance or incapacity benefit will be able to buy stamps at 2011 prices – 46p and 36p.

Leaflets will be sent to every home in the UK explaining who is eligible. A spokesman said: “Royal Mail is pleased to be introducing this scheme to help our customers, who are on these benefits and facing extremely tight budgets this Christmas.”