i agree with you but there are still lines at the post office. i would say there is room for usps, ups, fedex, email, voip etc, for all to exist successfully. i would say, perhaps the increase is like anything else, gas, etc, adjusted for inflation?
i agree with you but there are still lines at the post office. i would say there is room for usps, ups, fedex, email, voip etc, for all to exist successfully. i would say, perhaps the increase is like anything else, gas, etc, adjusted for inflation?
You seem to know a bit on the subject. I heard a while back that the government was going to cut them off and have them as their own company for profit.
USPS, the government was in talks to cut them off and have them turn a profit on their own as a private company
ah. that sounds interesting. i wonder why they haven't done it yet? i bet its still in committee or something similar perhaps?
Thats funny.. the people here (CT) are much nicer.. they recommend people to ship items media mail to save $$$, some people ships books first classl but the clerks say use media... maybe its the bulk size of all the books combined...
Originally posted by: quasarsky
thanks for confirming my post about your lack of reason
You still don't get it. You tell others to stop trolling your threads, but you do it to everyone else.
dullard
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USPS on Media mail:
It says nothing about non-profit. It specifically says 70lbs. It specifically mentions books.
USPS again
Hmm, again nothing about non-profit, it says up to 70 lbs, and it says it is designed for books and DVDs.
:thumbsup:
I've been selling books and using media mail for 5 semesters now. Never been questioned.
UPS and Fedex are already their own independent companies for proffit. VOIP is a technology that many companies are making proffits off of.
The US Gov has talked about spinning off the postal service into the private sector for years and years. The postal service has even been able to do a few things that are more independent than what normal Gov agencies have done, such as allowing Fedex drop posts and advertisements inside and right outside of their offices. They have also been repeatedly sued by Fedex and UPS and have been basically screwed in court time and time again; because the entity that is the postal service has not really been in control of its own moves and decisions.
Spinning off the postal service would be the worst move the Fed Gov could make for US consumers. As it is, the majority of post offices lose money year after year, because it is very expensive to employ the high wage postal carriers which are deployed in high number for massive square mileage in rural areas where customers are few and far between and do not spend much money themselves on postage. Also, for the longest time, and maybe still today(not sure), the postal service did not charge any more money for ANY shipping option (priority, parcel, media, overnight, express, etc) to Anchorage or Honolulu or say NY, NY. Whenever the post office tries to change its rates then fedex/ups sues them. If the post office becomes a company that controls itself, WHAM----- recipients start paying delivery fees. Rural money losing offices get shut down and you have to drive 80 miles to put something in the mail. A majorly Tiered system for pricing emerges depending on where you want to ship your items to. Prices will at least double on stamps. Wages for the employees will drop much lower (which is arguably appropriate, carriers generally make too much money for what they do).
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It just depends on the post office. My local post office (town of 60,000) is mostly nice people. One of the clerks isn't that way. She seems to think everyone is trying to steal something. She thoguht I was cashing a stolen money order because it came from out of state. One of my friends who went in (I had never said anything about the woman) was accused of trying to fake stamps by the same person. Everyone else there is nice though.
Yeah In the 4 years I have been going to school I have never had as much of an issue as I am now. It was a switch from the day before to the next day it seemed. As if they got a message from HQ to start hassling shippers who ship using media mail and no services such as insurance etc.
Originally posted by: tfinch2
Originally posted by: quasarsky
thanks for confirming my post about your lack of reason
You still don't get it. You tell others to stop trolling your threads, but you do it to everyone else.
i'm sorry but is this your thread? didn't you troll my comment here *first*? and i don't have a problem with the original poster. i was just saying usps shouldn't charge so much for stamps. get a life travis. geez lol
No the reason it hasn't happened is that, if you prices are bad now, wait till they have to run themselves without federal help. There is no where else you can send a letter for 37 cents. Every try sending correspondence through Fedex or UPS, they charge an arm and a leg for it. That is what keeps people coming to the USPS is cheap letters for when you need to pay bills, etc. But even there, the internet is slowly eating away at them through online bill pay, etc. Simple letters is the only thing that USPS really does that much cheaper than the other two bigs ones. Which is why you see stamp prices rising constantly.
So
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Plus, I believe that they make a *small* profit on mailing a letter...a nickel, tops, and that used to subsidise packages, but as volume of letters dropped (e-mail, et. al) they had to jack up mail prices. That with rising fuel costs, and the fact that with less letters, the economies of scale drop of *somewhat* they're facing a good bit of pressure.
dullard
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Why shouldn't they charge so much?
Lets look at inflation numbers: source..
[*]April 1999: 166.2
[*]April 2006: 201.5
Inflation in the last 7 years: 201.5/166.2 = 1.212
[*]Stamps in 1999: 33 cents
[*]Stamps adjusted by inflation: 33 cents * 1.212 = 40 cents.
Thus stamps now at 39 cents went up LESS than inflation.
Not raising that much...
It looks about like the rate of inflation in the economy. USPS has done very very small rate increases on their stamps when you think about it.
Agreed. About 40% of the postal clerks in South Carolina are head cases. But also, about 40% of the population of South Carolina are head cases. What is my point, you ask?
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