The following narrative describes a day in the life of Jemma Collins, a fourteen-year-old match girl. She works at the Bryant & May match factory to support her mother and sister, Ann (who had developed phossy jaw and will most likely die).hen a girl got phossy jaw, her face near the jaw gave off a green glow and slowly turned black. The jaw would soon start to give off smelly pus, and eventually the girl would die from the cancer. Match girls worked long hours in the factories (usually from 6 AM to 6 PM) with only two short breaks.
On September 25, 2013, the USPS announced a 3 cent increase in the First Class postal rate, to be effective January 26, 2014, increasing the price of a stamp to 49 cents. Bulk mail, periodicals, and package service rates were also increased by 6 percent. A loss of US$5 billion during the 2013 fiscal year was the reason given for the increase.
First and second class stamps are going up in price next month. Postage stamps are set to go up in price again from March 29. Royal Mail said the price of a first class stamp will increase to 64p and second class will go up to 55p. That means they are both going up by a penny each, along with large letter stamps which will also increase by 1p. Oops. This is above the rate of inflation which was around 0 per cent for most of 2015.