PSA: Stamp prices going up Monday

[SandEagle]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30662579/

 

[JS80]

What's a "stamp"?

 

[SandEagle]

Originally posted by: JS80
What's a "stamp"?

am i the only one left on this planet that still sends checks and doesn't do online bill payments? 🙁

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: SandEagle

Originally posted by: JS80
What's a "stamp"?

am i the only one left on this planet that still sends checks and doesn't do online bill payments? 🙁

Yes.

 

[Cheeseplug]

That's it. Time to riot.

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: SandEagle

Originally posted by: JS80
What's a "stamp"?

am i the only one left on this planet that still sends checks and doesn't do online bill payments? 🙁

My parents do... but they're just about 50 and they've been doing it for all their lives.

 

[gsethi]

Originally posted by: SandEagle

Originally posted by: JS80
What's a "stamp"?

am i the only one left on this planet that still sends checks and doesn't do online bill payments? 🙁

For my personal stuff, everything is e-bill/online payments.

Business payments etc. all get mailed in and are paid via Checks. Bought like ~200+ stamps yesterday to last few months.

 

[Leros]

Thanks forever stamps!

 

[boomhower]

Originally posted by: Leros
Thanks forever stamps!

My wife bought a couple books. Pretty much everything we pay is online or in person. Only thing we male is a couple medical bills from out of town that can't be paid online.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: gsethi

Originally posted by: SandEagle

Originally posted by: JS80
What's a "stamp"?

am i the only one left on this planet that still sends checks and doesn't do online bill payments? 🙁

For my personal stuff, everything is e-bill/online payments.

Business payments etc. all get mailed in and are paid via Checks. Bought like ~200+ stamps yesterday to last few months.

Well won't you need to get the cent stamps then or are these the weird ones where they cover whatever the current price is?

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: gsethi

Originally posted by: SandEagle

Originally posted by: JS80
What's a "stamp"?

am i the only one left on this planet that still sends checks and doesn't do online bill payments? 🙁

For my personal stuff, everything is e-bill/online payments.

Business payments etc. all get mailed in and are paid via Checks. Bought like ~200+ stamps yesterday to last few months.

200+...to last a few months? :Q

I bought one book sometime last year and I think I have at least half of them left. 😱

 

[MustISO]

I do 90% of my bill paying through online banking. I hate having to mail stuff.

 

[LilPima]

Originally posted by: boomhower

Originally posted by: Leros
Thanks forever stamps!

My wife bought a couple books. Pretty much everything we pay is online or in person. Only thing we male is a couple medical bills from out of town that can't be paid online.

You couldn't just add the account/payee to your online bill pay and your bank will send them a check? I even pay my doctor's co-pays though my online account, they send a real check to his office and I don't get the hassle of mailing anything.

 

[nageov3t]

thanks postoffice, I can't wait to have to go buy a bunch of 1-cent stamps :frown:

rent check FTL

 

[SilentZero]

Haven't used a stamp in about...7 years or so.

 

[Kwatt]

Originally posted by: SandEagle

Originally posted by: JS80
What's a "stamp"?

am i the only one left on this planet that still sends checks and doesn't do online bill payments? 🙁

No you are not. There is two of us.😀

PS I don't have a debit card either. No PayPal account. I don't allow billing of my checking accounts or my CC's. I got tried of spending the time to fix it when the company screwed up the billing.

...

 

[Bateluer]

Isn't the US Post Office nearing extreme bankruptcy?

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: loki8481
thanks postoffice, I can't wait to have to go buy a bunch of 1-cent stamps :frown:

rent check FTL

Ummm, all the stamps they sell now are Forever stamps - they will always be good to send a first class letter, regardless of the current stamp price.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Isn't the US Post Office nearing extreme bankruptcy?

Problem is they get no tax money but they can?t raise rates or control a lot of their cost like salary as they have to still do as the Fed Gov says.

That is why they are losing money as their cost have gone up but they are not allowed to alter the days the deliver and/or other cost issues.

 

[rgwalt]

This means that the 100 Forever Stamps I bought back in 2007 will have earned more than my 401K did in 2008.

FML

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Isn't the US Post Office nearing extreme bankruptcy?

extreme bankruptcy?
wtf is extreme?

No the Post Office has been self sufficient since it was founded and gets no taxpayer money.
And, I kinda think that only 44 cents to have something hand delivered anywhere in the US is a bargain.
Just look what FedEx charges.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow 44 is cheap. They're like 51 cents or something here. Though that is cheap when you consider that's all you need to send a small or paper item to someone. I'm actually considering mailing cards to activate accounts on my game server, so I can have better control over bannings. (ex: we'd never send a card to the same address twice).

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: techs

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Isn't the US Post Office nearing extreme bankruptcy?

extreme bankruptcy?
wtf is extreme?

No the Post Office has been self sufficient since it was founded and gets no taxpayer money.
And, I kinda think that only 44 cents to have something hand delivered anywhere in the US is a bargain.
Just look what FedEx charges.

It's like normal bankruptcy but with explosions and car chases.

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Wow 44 is cheap. They're like 51 cents or something here.

But that's Canada money so in actual money it comes to about a nickle so it's cheap there.

 

[coloumb]

Originally posted by: rgwalt
This means that the 100 Forever Stamps I bought back in 2007 will have earned more than my 401K did in 2008.

FML

lol...and crying at the same time.

 

[goog40]

Originally posted by: techs

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Isn't the US Post Office nearing extreme bankruptcy?

extreme bankruptcy?
wtf is extreme?

No the Post Office has been self sufficient since it was founded and gets no taxpayer money.
And, I kinda think that only 44 cents to have something hand delivered anywhere in the US is a bargain.
Just look what FedEx charges.

They're certainly heading in that direction. Check their earnings:
http://www.postalreporter.com/...egory/postal-finances/

$1.9 billion loss in the last quarter alone
$2.9 billion loss for FY2008

They're going to get their own bailout soon.