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U.S. Postal Service proposes price hikes to offset inflation
KVIA ^ | 10/8/2022 | CNN

Posted on 10/08/2022 11:57:32 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

First class stamps would cost three cents more and mailing a postcard would increase by four cents.

The agency is also looking to increase fees for P.O. box rentals, money orders, and insurance.

The governors of the U.S. Postal Service already approved these hikes and the postal regulatory commission will review the proposal.

If approved, the changes will take effect in January.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; inflation; moneypit; obamasfault; usps
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To: Drew68

It’s actually a two-tiered system. The actual USPS employees have a fat union contract which grants them benefits that even normal federal employees don’t have access to. They basically can’t be fired, even for not working. This is offset by hourly contractors who do most of the actual work, about as well as you would expect based on how little they are paid.

There is no hope of reforming the USPS until their union is busted. You can’t get rid of them without amending the Constitution. Fortunately, no one really needs them anymore.


21 posted on 10/08/2022 12:43:18 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: Sequoyah101

“This gooberment is FAILED. It is time for it to disappar because almost anything that replaces it can be better.”

The government hasn’t failed. It has been filled with people that failed it. And them getting in there is the mistakes of the voters because they are too stupid or lazy to do their research and protect themselves and the nation. And shortly they will be replace by more of the same as both sides of the aisle are just as dishonest and stupid as the voters allow them to be. So, replace it with what that won’t be more of the same or worse? All cats are gray in the dark.

wy69


22 posted on 10/08/2022 1:16:08 PM PDT by whitney69 (quantity)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Load up on forever stamps before January.


23 posted on 10/08/2022 1:19:28 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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USPS is going the way of the pony express…can’t charge ever increasing prices for delivery of ever decreasing volumes…mail boxes will be found as curios in antique shops in 20 years…


24 posted on 10/08/2022 1:36:56 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Right Wing Vegan

They already increased my box rent this summer, along with rate hikes. IIRC, another rate hike is due in time to affect Christmas mailings.

Too much is never enough!


25 posted on 10/08/2022 1:57:19 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: Sacajaweau

I literally ooen my box and throw everything away.


26 posted on 10/08/2022 2:02:12 PM PDT by Fledermaus (With Trans Republicans like McCarthy and McConnell do we really want them to win Congress in 2022?)
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To: wbslws
I've got few complaints.
It is more expensive, but as an example...
I ordered a small item from an online store in L.A. on Wednesday morning at about 10:30 CDT. I just looked at my email and there is a tracking notification that I knew nothing of.
I looked at the tracking email and the package was delivered this morning at 9:31 to my mailbox. There are also 6 other comments concerning the package's location.
I was impressed.
Looks to me like they know where stuff is.
Seems to be better than it was 20-30 years ago.
27 posted on 10/08/2022 2:22:28 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: frank ballenger

Years ago it would take a week to get a letter or a card sent to Japan from NY . Now takes a month ! And it is not the Japanese P.O. fault .


28 posted on 10/08/2022 2:30:46 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: sushiman

On Green Acres Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) was at the post office in Hooterville and tried to pick up a small package under the wooden table leg.
“Don’t take that, Mr. Douglas. Leave it.”
“But this hasn’t been delivered all these months.”
“That particular package is holding up the postal table and is just the right height for balancing out the wobbly tilt. Leave it under there, please.”


29 posted on 10/08/2022 2:37:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
In before the I-remember-two-cent-stamps crowd.

Not a good idea to insult and rile up us older FReepers (I was born in 1946). Just sayin'.

I used to collect stamps when I wasn't running my Lionel trains or putting together models of the Snark and the B-58 Hustler.

What years were 2 cent stamps used? When World War I ended at the end of 1918, the rate was lowered to its pre-War level of one cent. Postage was raised briefly from 1 cent to 2 cents in 1917-1919 and in 1925-1928; the conclusive raise to 2 cents was in 1951.

30 posted on 10/08/2022 2:42:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Sequoyah101
almost anything that replaces it can be better.

You're "right on" with that statement.

The problem is that NOTHING is being done, or even TALKED about in terms of REMOVING and REPLACING this MONEY-EATING Behemoth.

Last time I checked the USPS was LOSING 5 PLUS BILLION dollars per year of taxpayer money.

31 posted on 10/08/2022 2:48:28 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: VideoDoctor

Let private industry deal with it.
UPS
Amazon
Fed Ex
The pension savings would easily cover the costs.


32 posted on 10/08/2022 3:14:06 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: frank ballenger

The chart I saw said that the postage for the first ounce of a first-class letter was three cents from 1932 to 1958. Two-cent postage was a *long* time back.

Usually on any thread about postage-rate increases, you’ll get old-timers commenting about how cheap postage used to be. (I’m old enough to remember 4-cent first-class postage myself.)

Never got into stamp collecting myself, though I put together quite a few models. Cars, planes, ships, all kinds.


33 posted on 10/08/2022 3:18:03 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Right Wing Vegan

What inflation?

/s


34 posted on 10/08/2022 3:32:12 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I think I remember six cent stamps in 1973?


35 posted on 10/08/2022 3:37:36 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

Six cents was 1968-1971. Of course, back then you always had leftover stamps from before the last rate increase, and you’d use one- and two-cent stamps as needed to get the right postage. Best thing the USPS ever did was to go to the forever stamps.


36 posted on 10/08/2022 3:42:04 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: PghBaldy

I was wrong... rates from 1863 till now: https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/domestic-letter-rates-since-1863.htm


37 posted on 10/08/2022 3:44:53 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

I have an elderly friend who is unable to get out much. She lives in town. Her mail is delivered to the mailbox on her porch. Too many times, the deliverer failed to pick up her paid bills just because she didn’t have any mail for him to deliver. The paid bills often sit in the box for days.


38 posted on 10/08/2022 3:54:33 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://ThereIsHopeinJesus.com)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The Post Office, a ‘government’ corporation was destined to fall from it’s inception.


39 posted on 10/08/2022 4:09:36 PM PDT by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

In before the I-remember-two-cent-stamps crowd.

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I’m so old, I remember Pony Express.


40 posted on 10/08/2022 4:11:07 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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