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50-Cent Stamp, Other Postal Changes Coming
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Posted on 02/17/2012 1:10:30 PM PST by Java4Jay
The U.S. Post Office, facing financial losses of up to $18.2 billion a year by 2015, wants to charge more for postage, more for services, and to suspend Saturday delivery.
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They will price themselves out of business.
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:10:39 PM PST
by
Java4Jay
To: Java4Jay
I do believe, in light of technological advances i.e. email, electronic bill pay, etc., that it would make sense to go to a MWF delivery system. I think post offices should be open on Saturday, though, because that is the only day many can get to them.
And although the Constitution maintains that the US Gov’t have a postal service, it seems to me competition for it should be allowed. We’d just have to have a U.S. Mail of some type even if there were competitors.
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:14:11 PM PST
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: All
I just paid $4.00 per gallon for REGULAR gas.
Thanks Obama
To: Java4Jay
Wait,,a fifty cent stamp might be first of a new series. Next is NWA,, then snoop,,
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:18:07 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: Java4Jay
"They will price themselves out of business."
They might have done that already. I went in to what used to be a very busy P.O.the other day and joked how I could walk right up to the counter. I wanted to mail a small box that used to cost me about 5.00 to mail and they wanted 13.00 to mail it! That was more than UPS with insurance and real tracking. I ask about the cost and I was told rates went up 3 weeks ago, particularly for none local deliveries.
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:19:10 PM PST
by
Average Al
(Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
To: Java4Jay
I recently found a picture postcard in a batch of old pictures. It is to my Grandmother when she was still a girl. It has to have been mailed before 1912. Notice the postage. I also found it interesting that it was in color.
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:19:19 PM PST
by
yarddog
To: Java4Jay
They should hire a rapper to sell their rap.
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:20:51 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Java4Jay
Just shows how government types solve a problem. Not making money? Charge more? The more they charge the more attractive alternatives such as online bill pay become.
Not too bright.
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:21:57 PM PST
by
brownsfan
(Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
To: Persevero
And although the Constitution maintains that the US Govt have a postal service, it seems to me competition for it should be allowed. Wed just have to have a U.S. Mail of some type even if there were competitors. Home delivery is not mandated (it began about the time of the Civil War) It may be worth it to drop the home delivery and allow private, contracted delivery services to handle Door to door deliveries.
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:23:31 PM PST
by
Cowman
(How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
To: Persevero
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:23:45 PM PST
by
Java4Jay
(The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
To: Java4Jay
Easily 90% of what arrives in my post box is stuff that I don’t want and didn’t ask for. I pay my bills online. The USPS sucks.
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:27:04 PM PST
by
tgusa
(gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
To: Java4Jay
50cent stamp.
So now there is a rapper stamp?
What is this country coming to?
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:28:00 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Java4Jay
Mailing a letter next door, using a government service: 50 cents.
Having someone grow a kiwi fruit in New Zealand, harvesting it, shipping it to the United States, and buying it at a supermarket, all using private services: about 33 cents.
To: Java4Jay
That will end my mass Christmas card mailings.
100 cards = $50
And that doesn’t include the price of the cards!
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:31:29 PM PST
by
TSgt
(Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
To: Average Al
I use the Post Office almost daily to mail packages. The rates did go up from .05 to .25 cents. The rates are also affected by weight,size of package and Zones. A 1 lb package sent priority mail with delivery confirmation to Zone 2 Fresno is $5.95 while the exact same package sent to South Carolina Zone 8 costs $7.05
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:32:38 PM PST
by
funfan
(and his crew)
To: yarddog
I have a postcard mailed in 1940. Postage was one cent.
Of course, letters could be mailed for three cents. Air mail was eight cents.
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:36:54 PM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: Our man in washington
Having someone grow a kiwi fruit in New Zealand, harvesting it, shipping it to the United States, and buying it at a supermarket, all using private services: about 33 cents. That's a great point
And I'm sorry to be the one to tell you but somehow, someway, pointing that out makes you a racist or against the poor, or working poor or something like that. Also, you kick puppies... and the puppies are also poor
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:39:21 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: Java4Jay
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:39:53 PM PST
by
Joe the Pimpernel
(Should a constitution protect government from the individual, or the individual from government?)
To: Java4Jay
Every time they raise the price I start paying another bill online. My wife retired from the USPS I know first hand some of the waste that goes on.
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:40:06 PM PST
by
WKB
(Anything Obama: "What a revoltin' development this is")
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posted on
02/17/2012 1:42:11 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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