Postal Rates to Increase Yet Again

[Drakkon]

http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/2...al_hike.reut/index.htm
with all the junkmail (read same credit card offer over 10 times now) i get in my box every week you'd think they would still be raking in the $$$.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/2...al_hike.reut/index.htm
with all the junkmail (read same credit card offer over 10 times now) i get in my box every week you'd think they would still be raking in the $$$.

Junk mail gets a discount.

The rate increase will not take effect for a while. Enough time for you to use up some of those stamps. IF not, just purchase the delta denominations which will be made available.
Yes it will be hell to stick a second stamp on the envelope, but you can do it.

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: Drakkon
http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/2...al_hike.reut/index.htm
with all the junkmail (read same credit card offer over 10 times now) i get in my box every week you'd think they would still be raking in the $$$.

Junk mail gets a discount.

The rate increase will not take effect for a while. Enough time for you to use up some of those stamps. IF not, just purchase the delta denominations which will be made available.
Yes it will be hell to stick a second stamp on the envelope, but you can do it.

I just wish they would end the postage discounts for junk mail. Our higher postal rates just subsidizes their postage rates. 🙁

 

[TechnoKid]

I don't oppose the increase, if anything, the post office workers should get more money, considereing what they often have to do.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Email just screwed the postal service.

 

[imported_FishTaco]

Lazy American workers, we should outsource our postal service to India. We'll just mail all our mail to India, then they'll mail it back to us. Yeah, that'll work.

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: FishTaco
Lazy American workers, we should outsource our postal service to India. We'll just mail all our mail to India, then they'll mail it back to us. Yeah, that'll work.

Actually, my last trip to a local post office revealed about 80% of the employees working in there were asian.

 

[brxndxn]

Perhaps if the Postal Service made inflationary stamps that are always guaranteed to mail a letter, though, the price for them might change...

Like, I buy a stamp now for 37 cents. But, the same stamp will sell for 41 cents in a few months. So, I can use the first stamp I bought at 37 cents just like a newer 41cent stamp. That way, the post office would get a ton of people stocking up on stamps and there would be an influx of new money into the office. Then, the new money could be used for investment purposes and streamlining the business model so the post office could be profitable. Stamps could be like 'mini loans' to the post office. And, the people that buy stamps would like it because they would never have to worry about rate increases as long as they had stamps.

 

[PanzerIV]

F^ck the post office. I pay my bills either online or at a local payment center. I rarely ever mail anything anyway.

 

[Firus]

I love when people complain about a one cent increase on stamps every two years. Think of what that 37 cents gets you...you drop a letter in a mailbox, one employee comes and picks up every-freakin-piece of mail in the city, from every mailbox (I was the mail picker-upper at one point). Next other employees have to sort each letter into each route. Next, the letter-carriers have to sort (from memory) each letter in the correct order of the mail route into separate slots for each address. They then go out on the route and hand-deliver each piece of mail to the recipients door. Also, who doesn't love getting real mail compared to email, its like christmas...even the junk mail, think of it as a knitted red/green sweater from your grandma, its hideous, but still a present 😀

 

[oogabooga]

im still amazed at how the postal system works. i rarely send out mail so i guess the fee increase wont hurt me too much.

 

[daveman]

I use the mail less and less all the time. I pay most of my bills through Billpay on my banks website.

 

[xSauronx]

you think theyd just up it to $0.50 and be done with it for a while
im paying more and more bills online; and since im in a small town, the rest i just pay in person.

 

[jadinolf]

When I heard about the possible increase, I thought to my self that I only have to mail one bill payment and that's my rubbish bill. Apparently the management there are too stupid to arrange for direct pay.

Anyone else in that position?

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: FishTaco
Lazy American workers, we should outsource our postal service to India. We'll just mail all our mail to India, then they'll mail it back to us. Yeah, that'll work.

Yes, but it will take weeks for us to get the junk mail that we immediately throw away without even looking at it.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: PanzerIV
F^ck the post office. I pay my bills either online or at a local payment center. I rarely ever mail anything anyway.

I'll have to look into doing the same.

 

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
I don't oppose the increase, if anything, the post office workers should get more money, considereing what they often have to do.

Oh please, their job is a cakewalk.

Eventually this top heavy way of running things is going to come crashing down. Oh wait, it's already started.

 

[forumJunkie]

Oh man.... my 4 cents.... what am I going to do?!

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99
Online billpay has screwed the postal service.

fixed

 

[jammur21]

Just raise it to 50 cents and be done with it.

 

[DaWhim]

now I wonder if it is worth to do a 50 cents to 1 dollar rebate on those small household items.

 

[vegetation]

They should raise it much higher and would have if they weren't a quasi-government program. 1st class postage haven't even kept up with inflation and fuel prices are likely to continue to climb into the future.

 

[jadinolf]

I just thought about this: I remember when it cost only 1 1/2 cents to send a greeting card. Only catch was that the envelope could not be sealed. How's that for trivia???

 

[BatmanNate]

Stamps can be purchased at lower than face value from Costco. I assume it's some sort of loss leader tactic, but they do the same thing with movie tickets.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Stamps can be purchased at lower than face value from Costco. I assume it's some sort of loss leader tactic, but they do the same thing with movie tickets.

Never knew that.