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.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.
Thanks Obama
Wait,,a fifty cent stamp might be first of a new series. Next is NWA,, then snoop,,
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.
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.They should hire a rapper to sell their rap.
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.
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.
50cent stamp.
So now there is a rapper stamp?
What is this country coming to?
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.
That will end my mass Christmas card mailings.
100 cards = $50
And that doesn’t include the price of the cards!
What is a post office?
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.
why would fitty cent get a stamp?
I recently did some heavy duty shipping. Using the P.O., I saved an average of $3-$5 per carton (depending on weight) over the two private shippers.
In toto, I saved big bread.
And if the P.O. rates go up, the privates will go up proportionately.
If you haven't tried it, don't knock it.
Leni
| Organization | Wages as % of revenue |
| FedEx | 35% |
| UPS | 53% |
| Post Office | 82% |
There's nothing the Post Office can do if it doesn't change that.
What’s the avreage salary of a postal worker?
Congress is the problem.
It will not allow the U.S. Postal service to make some of the changes it needs to, and will not use its power to force the U.S. Postal Service, and it’s unions, to make changes they don’t want to make.
If Congress does not quit its own madness with respect to the U.S. Postal Service, it will relegate it to a continuing slow painful death, when a ton of privatization could be injected into it, profitably, before eventually allowing it to be totally privatized as the third national, private mail and package delivery service (meaning regular mail service, at that time, would become opened to UPS and Fedex as well).
UPS and Fedex seem like such “better” delivery outfits, and part of that is true. But part of that is also due to the burdens - six-days a week general mail delivery to potentially, any/every physical address on the route; political hurdles to locations of and closing of locations of U.S. Postal service operations; political hurdles to private contracts and contractors performing many/most “customer counter” operations; political hurdles to locations of and closing of locations of U.S. Postal service operations; union issues deeper than any at either UPS or Fedex; and Congressional vasselation between hands-on and hands-off oversight.
An immediate “IPO” would not bring the taxpayers or the new company as much as would fixing some of the greatest burdens ahead of time, with legislation that allowed the executive branch to “make it so”, with a government appointed receiver (just like bankruptcy) who was allowed to make any changes they could in order to make the U.S. Postal service profitable.
Full disclosure - no one should think that even in a well-run, privatized and profitable U.S. Postal Service that a “general delivery” postage stamp would necessarily cost less than $0.50. Until the U.S. Postal Service was allowed to operate profitably, no one can be sure what the true cost of a general delivery stamp should be.
Jay-Z, R. Kelly, and SnoopDog are gonna be pizzed!