Posted on 06/07/2015 2:40:26 AM PDT by SMGFan
The U.S. Postal Service will have to roll back a portion of its largest rate increase in 11 years after a federal court ruled that the higher postage prices in place since January 2014 can’t be permanent.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
As a government-owned enterprise, it's practically mandatory.
The USPS should be allowed to charge whatever they want for postage... and consumers should be allowed to send their parcels via UPS or FedEx.
Of all the gubmint run entities, this one needs to be privatized the worst.
Not sure I understand the legal reasoning here. There’s no “right to cheap postage” about which I am aware.
“The Commission permissibly reasoned that just because some of the effects of exigent circumstances may continue for the foreseeable future, that does not mean that those circumstances remain ‘extraordinary’ or ‘exceptional’ for just as long.”
Regulators shot themselves in their collective feet by capping their increases, and now bulk mailers are crying foul.
This part made me chuckle:
The aftereffects of the recession have become “the new normal,” the ruling said — and the Postal Service must adjust to that reality.
Or... orrrrr... perhaps we never recovered. HMMM!
Sure there is. It's in there right next to the "right" for government deadheads to have wall-to-wall taxpayer funded retirement and medical care. Try to curtail those "rights" and see how quick they are to defend them.
The USPS shouldn’t be competing with private enterprise period.
>> a federal court ruled that the higher postage prices in place since January 2014 can’t be permanent.
Why not?
It’s okay to tax at will, but voluntary, retail counter sales are unacceptable?
>> The USPS shouldn’t be competing with private enterprise period.
USPS predates commercial mail. Furthermore, its revenue is derived from counter sales.
“There’s no “right to cheap postage” about which I am aware.”
In a fundamentally transformed America, a ‘right’ is whatever the liberal, activist judges say it should be.
The USPS needs to be freed from government.
USPS contracts with those companies to deliver. And I mean Monstrous contracts!! That’s where the problem lies.
Around here (SW Pa), it's been internet connection ... some kind of thumb plug-in for your laptop or portable
But the commercial opens up with ... "You deserve internet wherever you go and it shouldn't cost you a lot " (or words to that effect)
I believe it has to do with the difference between the US Post Office and the US postal service.
Well, yeah. You can already do that, but it's expensive.
I sell DVDs via one of mywebsites. It costs $2.01 to send one anywhere in the continental US, and that includes tracking. Generally, it gets there in 2 days, three days, tops.
UPS can't touch that price. Plus there's a surcharge to deliver to residential addresses!
I also sell the occasional item on eBay. USPS Priority Mail is almost always the most cost-effective way of shipping, with free packaging supplies and far more convenient drop-off locations than UPS or FedEx.
The Post Office is named in the Constitution. It’s going to be around forever.
I’m fine with the post office, I just think congress needs to get out of the way.
Besides protecting our nation via the military services, delivering the mail should be something the government could do well.
Somewhere, the government lost its way...
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