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.
For years, reducing value and service while increasing cost.
Works every time, right?
I’m sure the postal service has increased costs of doing business, in part due to the price of gas going up so much.
As I understand it, the postal service is an independent organization, and not part of the federal government as such.
Which means, they are needing to balance their own budget, as an independent business entity.
i don’t get as much junk mail..or so it seems...now email...that’s another story
Speak for yourself !
But, but, I remember being told that inflation is only rising by ‘an inch’ and that it is ‘transitory’.
In before the I-remember-two-cent-stamps crowd.
People just don’t realize how much it costs to lose mail and deliver to the wrong address.
How about pay cuts across the border? Why not lay some lazy asses off first? Postal employees are union scum. Get a real job in the private sector.
BUT—AMAZON gets VERY preferential rates-—along with counties, hospitals, etc.
You betcha.
One of the post office vehicles in my town went up in smoke while out delivering mail, all of which also went up in smoke.
Stupid ICE vehicles - if only everthing were EV's, life would be so much better, Greta's tears would dry and Yawn Kerry could focus his attention on Iran.
The rate hikes are happening because the USPS today is nothing more than a cushy government job with a fat retirement pension exclusively for black women.
I avoid paying for stamps as much as I can. I used to mail things all the time.
Newman!…
Ikr. In the last year or two this problem has increased dramatically.
Nope.
It’s the severely over priced electric delivery trucks they just ordered and all the wiring the goes along with them.
The price of a ship anything box has doubled in the last five years.
I hardly ever mail anything anymore. USPS is dead to me. It is just another big, bloated, ineffective, useless gooberment entity.
A kid from Southwest Power Administration tried to tell me he worked for a “company”. I said, “BS, you work for an agency of the Department of Energy. Are you that embarrassed to work for the gooberment? If you are why do you do it? There are plenty of other jobs to be had?”j
His answer, “They don’t pay as well, have as good benefits and retirement and you have to work a lot harder.”
At least he was honest.
This gooberment is FAILED. It is time for it to disappar because almost anything that replaces it can be better.
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