Postal Service ends year $1.7B in the red (Stamp price to be raised to $0.37....GRRRRRRR...)

USA Today ^ | 12/4/2001 | N/A

[RooRoobird14]

WASHINGTON (AP)

[maxwellp]

We spend, selling through eBay, an average (or rather the buyers spend) an average of $600.00/month on shipping. There are several other eBay sellers in our area spending approximately the same amount. Small village - population 548. I never paid the Post Office, prior to eBay, $600.00/month to send my mail - it was more like next to nothing. To my way of thinking e-mail versus snail mail is being made up by shipping packages. So what say you, the Post Office?

[bilh]

If the volume of mail handled daily is declining, why are costs rising?

[ikanakattara]

The Post Office shouldn't have wasted all that money on that stupid EID stamp.

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[rockfish59]

skrew the bastards! i'm starting my own pony express!

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[nolu chan]

The 37 cents will rapidly come to represent the number of days a letter takes to get to its destination.

Your are correct! You see, the charge for handling your mail remains constant. It never changes. It always costs a penny a day. It used to cost 3 cents and take 3 days.

[RooRoobird14]

You're right--there's another story on that floating around here at FR. The entire postal operation sickens me. What a bunch of incompetent, lazy free-loaders!!!!