Postage rates go up today

[NateKnuckles]

In my lifetime it never went down!

No news here!

[Azjaeger]

Lol. You KNEW this was going to happen as soon as the "forever" stamp came out. How long will they make "forever" stamps? Forever. It's kind of like how you don't see on the gas pump how much is taxes, and how they take money out of your check all year and let you have a little back rather than letting you keep your money and making you write a check. When you had to buy new stamps and buy penny stamps to use up the rest of your old stamps, you were reminded of how much money the govt. was taking. The goal of taxation is to take your money automatically with you being reminded of it as little as possible. This way, it just costs you a bit more the next time you buy stamps.

[Postal Employee]

Donna Atlanta GA wrote:

why doesn't the post office save itself some money and energy and stop delivering mail on Saturday.

There are alot of people that works during the week and Saturday is the only day they have to be able to come to the Post Office.

[Postal Employee]

Corruption control wrote:

They need to double the rate for junk mail. The postal service wastes to much time processing junk mail. Processing Junk mail adds to the cost of postage, usually gets thrown out, and wastes paper resources. I'm sick of junk mail.

The Post Office has to deliver what comes in. If someone wants to send it, we deliver.

[Postal Employee]

Kirlak wrote:

US Postal service is a legalized rip-off. They increase rates without even making any public announcement! And, what do we get for this increased rate? Lost and delayed mail, rude postal employees or crazy postmen? NO matter, at the end, US Postal will loose business to other ( more reliable) carriers, so they will have no choice but to increase rate more, and soon!!

Not all Postal workers are rude, I am very nice to my customers, I try to help them in any way possible. These are people I see everyday, see them more than most of my family. They all know when they come and need some help that I will help them and never complain. If you have problems with a Postal worker, then you need to complain. Ask them to let you speak to someone that is in charge.

[Postal Employee]

david wrote:

I couldn't care less how much they charge me, I just wish they would put a flipping sign at the post office that they are about to go up so I have not just bought 100 stamps just before the increase and have to stand in line for 1 cent stamps AGAIN!

All Post Offices should have had a sign up stating the price was going up. Just a little note, they will go up every May.

[ointment]

Everything is going up... How sad to our economy... Is American gonna have a crash on economy???

[Bobby sadler]

yoohoo wrote:

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I will have to try that. The method I use is to remove the ink from used stamp with polish remover. Another method that works is to cut parts of two identical stamps that arent stamped and glue them together.

Hey, The postal workers can't even read the adress on the letters going just down the street.
I get my dads mail,he lives in Ky and I live in Tn. totally different state.
I would like to have their job at least I would actually look at the letter.One of the postal test is,looking for and reading the right address on the letter.DUH
They are getting paid too much and not doing their job right and real good benefits,too.

[Bobby sadler]

I know address instead of adress.

[Amanda]

Why don't they tell you this and let you vote it in?

[Bobby sadler]

ointment wrote:

Everything is going up... How sad to our economy... Is American gonna have a crash on economy???

I think that on inauguration day in 2009,either gasoline will go way up or way down. I think it is Janurary 17th.

[Bobby sadler]

Amanda wrote:

Why don't they tell you this and let you vote it in?

Tell us,what.

[for_your_informa tion]

MadTV made a skit about disgruntle customers that were concerned with paying over 30 some cents to pay a letter. The postal employee told the customer, listen if you can find anyone else that will deliver a letter for 34 cents, then use them instead of us. Which means that 34 cents or 42 cents to send a letter to anyone in the United States is pretty cheap.

But getting back to being serious, postal fees to mail letters do add up. But the postal service would tell us that the cost to run their business keeps going up.

Just think, someday people will be putting $2.00 stamps on an envelope to mail a letter to someone that lives 60 miles away. By that time, it will still be cheap because the cost to fuel our vehicles to drive 60 miles and back will be over $200.00. Scary, but it is true. Of course, people that are able to read this post probably won't be alive by that point, unless you are some kind of cyborg. Who knows though,$2.00 stamps might be only 5 years away, with the rate that fuel prices are rising.

[RELKO]

The CREDIT CARD Companies Again, Thanks you (POST OFFICE) again for delaying the Mail so they can get there "LATE PAYMENT FEE plus a Reason to INCREASE their ANUS Rates". That 1 cent = to millions of $.(IN LATE FEES) Maybe the Post Office General gets a CUT ?! Ah... Don't go Postal on me !

[RELKO]

yoohoo wrote:

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I will have to try that. The method I use is to remove the ink from used stamp with polish remover. Another method that works is to cut parts of two identical stamps that arent stamped and glue them together.

Ah... ER... Well... That could be a FED Crime ?

[CA Native]

most online bill payments charge at least a $5 fee. i'd pay an extra 1 cent anyday to save $4.99.

[Charles P]

The postal workers are pretty decent and polite when I see/talk to them.

E-mail may take away some letters from the post office, but web sites selling goods may increase deliveries of packages!

Saturday deliveries could be stopped (totally or just stop residential and continue business deliveries), while still leaving the post office open for customers to buy stamps and ship packages. The clerks are a separate job classification from carriers.

[eternal cynic]

Corruption control wrote:

They need to double the rate for junk mail. The postal service wastes to much time processing junk mail. Processing Junk mail adds to the cost of postage, usually gets thrown out, and wastes paper resources. I'm sick of junk mail.

I hate junk mail myself and shred most of it without looking at it. But, the truth is the post office generates significant revenue off junk mail. It doesn’t add to the cost of other mail as you suggest.

An excerpt from http://www.wkyt.com/wymtnews/headlines/118133...
Postal workers say during the Christmas season the United States Post Office will make about 58-million dollars, and nearly half of that revenue will come from bulk business mail

[eternal cynic]

Crystal wrote:

the hell with the post office i will just bring the bills myself!

Really? You would drive your bills to their destination. Let’s see I’m in Atlanta and I happen to have a few bills which arrived this week.

Des Moines, IA
El Paso, Tx
Wilmington, DE
Irvine, TX

The cost of delivering just those 4 would cost me several years worth of postage. I use about 250 stamps per month. 42 cents is still a deal.

[eternal cynic]

Char wrote:

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Losses to email, yes but all businesses have to compete. The benefits the government employees get is not competitive with private industry. This is the second increase in less than five months. The Post Office should have to announce well in adaance of any increase and they should also be prohibited from implementing the increase if the new stamps are not available.

Your calendar must have longer months than mine. The last increase was 5/14/07 which was nearly a year ago, not five months as you indicate. The increase prior to that was 1/8/06 and before that 6/30/02.