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Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:01 pm
by LICKING COUNTY FAN
The rate increase is part of a series of money-saving plans announced in March. These also include reducing mail deliveries to five days a week, closing offices and making other cuts in expenses. Congress must agree to eliminating deliveries on Saturdays.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Post-offi ... 3.html?x=0
Re: Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:14 pm
by biggdowgg
only mail I send, is "E" mail
Re: Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:21 pm
by vids4ckcrash
Figure how many letters you will mail in the next 10 years and buy enough stamps to last.
This has been a standing joke each time they were to raise the rates but with the Forever Stamp, it is no joke this time around.
Re: Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:54 pm
by Boonedawg
ups anyone? Capitalism for the win!
Re: Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:04 pm
by Orange and Brown
I haven't sent anything by mail in 5 years. I have used UPS and FEDEX but no USPS
Re: Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:13 am
by kantuckyII
You think that a cost of a stamp will bother you..wait till you get your electric bill after the changes in the clean air act this administration is proposing now! Our nation is doomed if something doesn't give! What's difference is a one dollar stamp going to make?
Re: Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 10:12 am
by vids4ckcrash
kantuckyII wrote:You think that a cost of a stamp will bother you..wait till you get your electric bill after the changes in the clean air act this administration is proposing now! Our nation is doomed if something doesn't give! What's difference is a one dollar stamp going to make?
And this is NOT a political post. No matter what most of you would think.
Re: Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:22 am
by OZZIEOHIO
A couple years ago I bought a book of stamps. I mailed one letter with it, then the next letter I sent came back because the price had went up. It had only been about a month. The rest of the stamps are still in the cabinet. I wont be mailing anything tru the post office.
Re: Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:52 am
by kantuckyII
Wow Oz, so, no more tellin' em...'the check is in the mail' anymore, huh?
Re: Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:54 pm
by toast
I've used UPS, FEDEX and USPS for years, never had a problem with any of them. Just a quick search but it looks like the United States Postal Service has the best rates in many cases. All the packages arrived on time during the "test" that were conducted. Maybe you can find different results.
3 shippers, 3 time frames
Charges to send a 5-pound package from Yonkers, N.Y., to Folsom, Calif., as of late September.
Shipper Next-day air 2-day air Ground
Postal Service $36.85 $16.80 $10.58
FedEx 73.50 43.65 10.06
UPS 73.50 43.65 13.99
Posted: October 2008 — Consumer Reports Magazine issue: December 2008
Re: Post office wants to raise the price of a stamp again.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:56 pm
by kantuckyII
Here's Oz at the Post Office...better rethink your decision!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hox-ni8geIw[/youtube]
Personally? I think the US Mail is a bargain for letters...packages? boy, they be slow