Posted on 04/11/2023 6:37:06 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The cost of mailing a letter or bill could rise three cents this summer after the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) moved Monday to launch previously threatened moves for a postage price hike as Bidenflation hits the service.
The increase in mailing services prices will become effective July 9.
That means the cost of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp could increase 5.4 percent, from 63 cents to 66 cents.
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The problem with doing that, it is actually named as a federal government function in the Constitution. There would have to be carefully written legislation delegating that.
Can’t remember the last time I slapped a stamp on an envelope.
Beat me by a minute. I bought a set of ten stamps about a year ago, I think I still have five. FWIW, I've used a few money orders in the past ten years or so, but the last time I wrote a check, BHO was the Prez, so there's little reason to mail most anything anymore.
Say what you will about the USPS, it’s pretty good overall. In Canada, they pay $1.07 for a stamp. I once mail a letter from IN to North Bay, Ont., and it took just under a month to deliver it. When I asked a Canadian why their rates were so high for such lousy service, they explained that it was $0.17 for delivery, and $0.90 for storage.
Me either
I think it’s been a year since I needed a stamp
I remember back in the day. It seemed a stamp stayed the same price for 5-10 years. I remember when the stamp passed 50c each just 2018.
Yesterday I paid for 3, it was just under 2 dollars.
Just for curiosity sake I looked it up. Stamps raised 13c from 1975-1995.they passed 50c in 2018 now they are 63c.
That’s also a 13 cent rise but instead if 20 years it took 5. Inflation will destroy us if it doesn’t slow.
I mailed 3 large boxes (each ~45 lbs.) by the lowest rate from MD. to HI. last Friday. They all arrived on Tuesday. Impressed me with speed.
Us, too. Mail just a few times a week here in Rural Wisconsin. Lack of carriers.
That said - any Junk Mail we’ve been receiving that has a postage-paid return envelope with it, stuff everything they sent you back into that envelope and mail it back. Seems to be the ONLY thing that gets their attention to take you OFF their mailing list.
This has cut our junk mail down to nearly nothing. Why should THEIR unsolicited Junk Mail end up in MY Landfill?
Try it! Can’t hurt, might help!
I send lots of cards — birthday, anniversary, Christmas (still do that), etc. Have stocked up on Forever Stamps, so should be good for quite a while.
With auto-deposit, auto-bankdraft, auto-billing, direct pay, online payment services, charge cards...the USPS has been left behind. Even our yard guy prefers Venmo. I got his bill yesterday via email while sitting in the sunroom, printed off the invoice wirelessly to the office printer (in draft mode to save ink), pulled up the Venmo app on my phone, paid the bill, got an email from Venmo acknowledging the payment and an auto-thank you note from him. I never got out of the LazyBoy. I’ll grab the printout later and make a “paid” note on it.
The key to all of that stuff, for my peace of mind, is to keep up with it ledger-wise. While my deposits and payments fly around on the Interwebz, I still balance the checkbook the old fashioned way, plus reconcile the numbers in an Excel chart.
There are several places in there the USPS could’ve sold some postage. It seems the majority of their product now days is junk mail.
That’s one of the true, better uses of actual First Class mail. It’s always special when you receive a handwritten card or letter in the mail.
I got a nasty note from my carrier telling me to stop putting Return to Sender on my junk mail and sending it back.
Wow.
If they have a "place stamp here" box on the envelope, I always put "Addressee will pay postage" and mail it back stampless.
“Say what you will about the USPS, it’s pretty good overall. “
Very good up here in NW GA. We get mail every day, Mon-Sat.
Just mailed a 3.5 lb package Priority Mail, N.GA to Billings Montana. Double boxed, factory shipping carton inside a Priority Mail Medium Flat Rate Box, $17.10 with delivery confirmation. Arrived in two days (mailed Thur, arrived Sat).
Suggestion for Nattering Nabobs of Negativism.
Go to UPS or Fedex. Ship a 3.5lb, 11.25”x8.75”x6” box 1700 miles to a residence and compare the cost.
USPS: “Junk Mail is our business”
Do you really think the PO sends it?
Right - Our delivery could be anywhere from 9 am to 9 pm.... Kind of hard to plan given that kind of service!
WHY would an increase be warranted or given?
I’m old enough to remember when the price of a first-class stamp was 3¢. Thing is it had been that same price for nearly a century. Went up to 4¢ in 1958. Then to 5¢ in ‘63, about the same time they took the silver out of our dimes, quarters and halves.
A few years later we went off what was left of the gold standard and now we have candy bars and postage stamps selling for over 60¢ instead of a nickel.
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