new price for GRO certs

[sandra70]

just a thought....is it worth starting off a petition, to send to Gordon, I think
you can do this on line - does anyone know how to go about it ? as I know everyone (or
nearly everyone) would sign up

[Rah1980]

Yeah nearly everyone Sandra! I have signed e-petitions but have no idea how to start one i'm affraid

[FraserandFraser]

No time to start it but here's the link

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/

[Tsu]

Another good reason to put the details of any certificates that you buy into a notem next to the entry on Free BMD.

I have done this for my Jones relatives, but I might do it for all of them.  If I save one person £9.25 it will have been worth it.

[Tsu]

Just realised this was suggested earlier in the thread.  That'll teach me to read it all before I reply.

Sorry.

[sandra70]

ok, I am happy to try and start the petition, will need some help with the
wording and what we are trying to say...

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to…

[Rah1980]

Someone has posted that it has gone up 3 years too early so they have broken their promise perhaps that could go in somewhere?

[Silvilocks]

The increase doesn't seem that bad to me, given how long it's been since the last one. Probably means I'll be buying one cert every 3-4 weeks, rather than 2-3. It's more annoying that you don't get a cheaper rate when you've spent hours trawling through the index to find the right event, and then provide the reference.

[Rah1980]

Regardless of whether you can still afford them there is still a principle issue here where they said they wouldn't put it up for a further 3 years, and if it needed to go up why didn't they do it 50p here 50p there instead of adding on 32% or whatever the exact figure was. I am at a loss as to understand why it is so costly even if you take off postage and the cost of an envelope and paper for cert that only brings it down to say £8 how can it cost £8 to go to the correct file pull out the correct cert photcopy it stick it in the post? Providing they do searches logically they must be able to get a fair few done in an hour, it isn't exactly rocket science when you are telling them exactly where the document you want is. Anyway I shall order the certs i really really want on credit card before it goes up and only order a cert in future if it is from somewhere far away.

Sarah