I'm sure it'll be on something worthwhile.
Just like alllll their other spending, I'm sure.
Posted on 11/15/2005 10:50:38 PM PST by CAWats
Going first class: Snail-mail stamps will cost 39 cents
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - The cost of mailing a letter will increase to 39 cents on Jan. 8.
The Postal Service's board of governors approved the two-cent increase in first-class postal rates late Monday. It is the first increase since June 2002.
The cost of mailing a postcard will increase a penny, to 24 cents, as part of the roughly 5.4 percent, across-the-board hike in most rates and fees.
The increase fulfills a requirement, passed by Congress in 2003, that the Postal Service establish a $3.1 billion escrow account. Congress is to determine later how to spend that money. The Postal Service said without the mandate it would not have had to raise rates next year.
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I'm sure it'll be on something worthwhile.
They could make more money by establishing and marketing a new service: dumping [at customer's request] all the junk mail which otherwise keeps coming. For such selective non-delivery service they could easily charge several dollars a month per customer, and it will make their delivery workloads easier, too.
The government is right: monopolies are an evil thing. They sock the consumer and rig prices to suit their own selfish ends. Like giving Congress a few extra billion to build bridges to nowhere, name another deserted stretch of highway after Martin Luther King or study the military uses of cranberries.
It seems the only good monopoly is a government monopoly that supplies fresh cash for the buying of votes.
The US postal service is no longer a monopoly! Pay your bills online, send e-cards and e-mails and ship packages via FedEx, DHL, UPS, (insert whoever else) and you defund the USPS!
Isn't this basically just a tax increase - a way to channel more money through our Congress critters greasy paws?
Add Christians to your tag line. :)
I still have that roll of stamps I bought around 1999-2000 when I lived in San Diego.
One year the "shortfall" of the post office matched their bonuses paid out (hundreds of millions).
And with ebay, they are getting mo' money, mo' money, mo'money.
I'm surprised they even offer "1st class" letter service anymore. Just call it "priority" service and charge $4.90.
Remember the goony idea of having the post office give everyone an email account so that they could charge people without a computer 25 cents or so to print out and deliver messages?
They are floundering worse than the MSM.
Go print some more t-shirts, framed "stamps", and instant collectible Elvises.
I'm sure they'll spend it on something useful like hazmat suits for all postal employees.
General Motors could take its cue from the post office. All they'd have to do is double the price of their cars and they'd double the amount of money they take in. Economics 101.
I'm sure it'll be on something worthwhile.
Just like alllll their other spending, I'm sure.
Some of it will be pork barrelled for a Robert Byrd Flu Research center in WV.
No it won't. They just jack up the cost of mail like they always do.
Around here our post office is closed from 12 to 2. Are these government hours or what??
Apropos to nothing, I was in the post office the other day and I saw one of their new stamps is one of Greta Garbo. GRETA GARBO? If they wanted to commemorate a foreign actress it should have been Marlene Dietrich for all her help during WWII. I was kinda pissed.
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