The green stamp will become more and more expensive in 2025

With a 7.8% increase in the price of the green letter – for a case weighing less than 20 grams – which will go from 1 to 1.39 euros^Ahem From January 2025, instead of the current 1.29 euros, the current usage fee will increase more than the average prices for sending letters and packages, which will increase by 6.8% on 1^Ahem January next year, according to an announcement by La Poste on July 24.

This increase confirms the trend that had been observed, 1^Ahem In January, postal rates increased by an average of 8.3% and the green stamp, at a price unchanged from two years earlier, rose significantly from 1.16 to 1.29 euros (current rate in force).

Thus, in two years, this green seal has increased by 19.8% and certified letters by 18.8%.

Once again benefiting from a discount, customers of the online stamp service, for printing at home, will pay 1.35 euros for a green letter.

Among other products:

– The price of a 20-gram certified letter will increase from 5.36 to 5.74 euros (+ 7.1%);

– the international menu will increase from 1.96 euros to 2.10 euros;

– the letter “plus services” for “the most important document shipments that require follow-up notifications” rises from 2.99 to 3.15 euros (+5.4%);

Prices for Colissimo packages for individuals will increase by an average of 5.2%.

Services offered to companies, “industrial mail” (for large volumes of postal shipments) and direct marketing, will increase by 5.8% and 3.1% respectively.

On the other hand, there are no changes in mail tracking (at 50 cents) or in the price of the red electronic letter – whose relative success perhaps justifies this stability – which replaced the red stamp in 2023 for urgent letters to be delivered next day (at 1.49 euros).

For the record, the green stamp cost 0.68 euros in 2015…

This 7.8% increase in 2025 for individuals is added to the increases recorded in 2019 (+10.1%), 2020 (+10.3%), 2021 (+10%), 2022 (+8.1%)…

La Poste explains that “These developments ensure the sustainability of the high-quality universal postal service in a context of inflation and falling mail volumes”. “But it is the individuals who provide!”comments UFC-Que Choisir.

Indeed, if La Poste made a net profit of nearly 495 million euros in the first half thanks to its insurance activities, its public service missions are loss-making, in particular those related to mail, the volume of which fell by 10.3% in the first half, according to its CEO, Philippe Wahl, in a press release dated 1^Ahem August (parcel volumes, on the other hand, increased by 3.1% compared to 2023, thanks in particular to Geopost and Colissimo).

Users will console themselves as best they can, the price increase will not mean an increase “family budget” for postal services, according to La Poste: “In 2024, a household’s budget for postal products will represent an average of 29 euros per year, or 0.1% of its annual budget. Taking into account the drop in postal deliveries, this expenditure on postal products should decrease by 3% in 2025.”while in 2015 it was still 48 euros.

Arcep, the telecommunications regulator, points out that, “At constant volumes, the household basket would go from 29.35 euros in 2024 to 31.35 euros in 2025. However, sending mail using the universal postal service [qui inclut les envois postaux jusqu’à 2 kilos, les colis postaux jusqu’à 20 kilos, ainsi que les recommandés et les envois à valeur déclarée] The household basket of energy is on a downward trend due to changes in use and rising prices. Due to the combination of these two factors, the household basket should be equal to 28.37 euros in 2025.”.

For its part, the CGT union of postal workers and postal services in Paris points out that “It is not by raising the price of connections that mail will return to the pockets of postmen…”while SUD-PTT evokes a “Another stab in the back to the public service provided to the population, already degraded by the disappearance of three hundred fully operational post offices in 2023 alone”.