Stamps for a return letter the United Kingdom??

Question

I am going to try to send a letter to someone in the UK but i want a reply so i was going to inculde a return evelope but do i put stamps on it?? and how many

Answer 1

You need to go to a local Post Office and ask for an International Reply Coupon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reply_coupon

Answer 2

For someone to mail a letter to you from the UK, they would need to put UK stamps on the envelope. I suggest you contact a stamp dealer in your area - they should be able to sell you UK stamps to put on the returning letter (they should also know the regular letter rate from the UK to your country, or you can check with the British Post Office online to find out the rate first).

Another alternative is to go to your own local post office and get from them an "international reply coupon". This coupon would allow the person in the UK to go to their post office and exchange the coupon for the appropriate number of UK stamps to sent a regular first class letter back to you. The problem with an international reply coupon is that the receiver must be willing to go to the post office to make the exchange - for some companies this might be too much work and they would not bother - it is better in that case for you to do the work to actually get the right stamps yourself. Secondly, an international reply coupon tends to be expensive - the post offices charge extra for the extra work and they have to be priced high enough to cover postage from anywhere back to anywhere and so they tend to err on the high side pricewise.