Price of French stamps to rise by 5% in 2018

Prices are likely to increase from January 2018, with the cost of the simple “red stamp” expected to rise from €0.85 to €0.89 each, reported Le Figaro.

The second-most expensive stamp, the “green” will climb from €0.73 to €0.76, while the least expensive “grey” will rise from €0.71 to €0.74.

Parcels will also become more expensive to send.

Communications authority Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des Postes) gave the green light to a price hike from 2018, as its most recent authorisation, for the years 2015-18, comes to a close.

In the four preceding years, annual price hikes were allowed to reach an average of 3.5% higher than inflation (which amounted to 5.2% in practice).

Arcep defended the continuing rises, saying that the prices were “linked to the adoption of new ‘accounting rules’”.