new price for GRO certs

[LizzieW]

why not limit it to requests in the last 100 yrs,

Rah1980 (presumably your year of birth).  That might be OK for you, but my parents were born 99 years ago (they are now deceased) and their parents up to 130 years ago, so for people of my age, there would be little point in us trying to get BMD certs, if they were limited to the last 100 years.  Maybe limit requests to certificates older than 100 years.

LIzzie

[Rah1980]

I only said a 100 years because I assumed (although I don't know) that if for some reason I needed to get a copy of mine if I had lost it that would be where I would need to apply, (I can't imagine many 101 year olds needing copies of theirs) and they could let the local registar issue the old ones for family history if it was as someone said a ploy to limit how many we request (which logically goes against everything I think about the government ie money grabbing). Anyway hope that clears that up, I certainly wasn't trying to limit your family history reseach, and although I was indeed born in 1980 I still want to trace the ancestors as far back as possible!

[LizzieW]

Rah

The only problem with getting the local registrar to issue old certificates, is that my ancestors came from all round the UK, so I would have to contact each local office individually each time I wanted a certificate, GRO is much more convenient for me, especially if I have the appropriate reference numbers.  I suppose like everyone else, I'll either buy certificates less frequently, or just grin and bear it and pay up. 

Lizzie

[northern_rose]

Thanks to Neil for starting this thread. A 32% increase would only seem fair if it were applied across all services - which it hasn't!

Has anyone noticed the cost of the priority service with reference has only gone up 40p whereas priority no reference and offline priority applications will be going DOWN in price?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess Neil will benefit from the changes to priority services more than the rest of us! Lucky man!

[Jean McGurn]

Whilst I am not happy about the increase I suppose the fact the price has stayed the same for 7 years one ought to be thankful.

I have usually been ordering 3 certs at a time but think I will have to cut back to only 2 at a time.

I do have to say that some weeks ago I had ordered 3 certs but only two turned up. I waited for two weeks then sent an e-mail to Southport. As luck would have it it was the middle cert that hadn't arrived so I quoted all the relevant details. I received an answer two days later saying they would send me another copy which I received with the covering paperwork stamped priority post.

So for me personally I have found their service very good.

Jean

[FraserandFraser]

50% of our expenditure is on Priority's not 50% of our certs.

I think a bigger point is the checking point will no longer be offered, of all our orders 50% have checking points and half of them are not produced thus we used to get a £3.50 refund (or £3 I cant remember) that could add 12.5% to my yearly spend before the price increase.

So the price increase (16.5% AV priority and standard) on top of the 12.5% because we will no longer get checking point refunds could add £45k thousand to our costs or 45% I think you will realise that I will not be benefiting very much.

I hope that maths makes sense please tell me if it doesn't work out.

[Redroger]

Moderator comment: this thread edited - please see below



I realise that political threads are rightly banned on rootschat, and make this contribution in an attempt to balance political contricutions which have already been posted*.

* and removed by Moderator

[northern_rose]

I think you will realise that I will not be benefiting very much.

I certainly do - was just trying to put a positive spin for at least one of us! However, looking at your maths I can see what a huge increase it's going to be for you.

[Redroger]

It will of course affect all Heir Hunter companies equally.