USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
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- kturock ( 590 )
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USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
when postage is purchased online.
Yes that sucks for the window clerks, it's trying to phase out their jobs.
https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor ... 35100.html
Yes that sucks for the window clerks, it's trying to phase out their jobs.
https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor ... 35100.html
Heh, I was called a Grognard.
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USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
Does this affect shipping to Canada at all?
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- kturock ( 590 )
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
Nope.
well maybe.
well maybe.
Heh, I was called a Grognard.
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
Kinda awesome for those of us that use online shipping though...
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
It does include International (checked just now for a trade.)
While I agree it does suck for clerks, if a private organization lost as much money per quarter as USPS does it would have folded long ago. Something has to be done to cut costs.
While I agree it does suck for clerks, if a private organization lost as much money per quarter as USPS does it would have folded long ago. Something has to be done to cut costs.
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
The USPS didn't lose money until the government privatized them (while keeping them under Uncle Sam's thumb) but still required them to fund retirement plans for other government entities 10 years (or something like that) in advance.YoungWolf777 wrote:It does include International (checked just now for a trade.)
While I agree it does suck for clerks, if a private organization lost as much money per quarter as USPS does it would have folded long ago. Something has to be done to cut costs.
Eric
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
It's funding retirement for 70 years in advance.MagickalMemories wrote:The USPS didn't lose money until the government privatized them (while keeping them under Uncle Sam's thumb) but still required them to fund retirement plans for other government entities 10 years (or something like that) in advance.YoungWolf777 wrote:It does include International (checked just now for a trade.)
While I agree it does suck for clerks, if a private organization lost as much money per quarter as USPS does it would have folded long ago. Something has to be done to cut costs.
Eric
USPS is carrying and delivering more Fed Ex and UPS parcels than they do.
Usps is not privatized, but was mandated by W to run as a company, not government agency. Thats why it's usps.com not .gov, like it used to be.
Heh, I was called a Grognard.
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
Regardless of how it happened, something needs to change. USPS is hemorrhaging money faster than it can raise rates.
- kturock ( 590 )
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
It's making money until it has to pay the retirement.YoungWolf777 wrote:Regardless of how it happened, something needs to change. USPS is hemorrhaging money faster than it can raise rates.
By law, USPS can only raise rates based on past costs, not projected costs.
Heh, I was called a Grognard.
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
My brother is a Mail Carrier. He has said exactly what kturock did... only my brother interspersed prolific cussing. LOL
Eric
Eric
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Give me a sense of humor Lord. Give me the grace to see a joke.
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
Bad for the window jockeys; good for the mail carriers. I make my mail carrier work for her money every week. Keepin' her in a job.MagickalMemories wrote:My brother is a Mail Carrier. He has said exactly what kturock did... only my brother interspersed prolific cussing. LOL
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
No. Not good for them at all.
Due to the crappy "funding retirement for Senators and crap for 70 years in advance" policies the US Gov't put on the USPS, they're CONSTANTLY looking for ways to save money. One of the new ones being implemented is mailbox "banks." Some new developments, instead of having mail boxes at each house, have a central area where ALL of the boxes are housed. Want your mail? You have to go to where the boxes are to get it.
This means that a mail carrier can do that 'route' in a fraction of the time, leaving them available to do more routes. So, instead of 8 carriers doing 8 routes, they now only need ONE carrier to do them. That's 7 less mail carrier jobs.
Eric
Due to the crappy "funding retirement for Senators and crap for 70 years in advance" policies the US Gov't put on the USPS, they're CONSTANTLY looking for ways to save money. One of the new ones being implemented is mailbox "banks." Some new developments, instead of having mail boxes at each house, have a central area where ALL of the boxes are housed. Want your mail? You have to go to where the boxes are to get it.
This means that a mail carrier can do that 'route' in a fraction of the time, leaving them available to do more routes. So, instead of 8 carriers doing 8 routes, they now only need ONE carrier to do them. That's 7 less mail carrier jobs.
Eric
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Give me a sense of humor Lord. Give me the grace to see a joke.
To get some humor out of life and pass it on to other folk.
I think what this situation needs is some imagination.
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I think what this situation needs is some imagination.
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Well, obviously that change is bad for carriers, but I was talking about the one being discussed in the thread. Cheaper shipping = more USPS shipping.
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
+1pretre wrote:Well, obviously that change is bad for carriers, but I was talking about the one being discussed in the thread. Cheaper shipping = more USPS shipping.
Heh, I was called a Grognard.
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
- kturock ( 590 )
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Re: USPS is lowering prices for Prioirty mail
MagickalMemories wrote:No. Not good for them at all.
Due to the crappy "funding retirement for Senators and crap for 70 years in advance" policies the US Gov't put on the USPS, they're CONSTANTLY looking for ways to save money. One of the new ones being implemented is mailbox "banks." Some new developments, instead of having mail boxes at each house, have a central area where ALL of the boxes are housed. Want your mail? You have to go to where the boxes are to get it.
This means that a mail carrier can do that 'route' in a fraction of the time, leaving them available to do more routes. So, instead of 8 carriers doing 8 routes, they now only need ONE carrier to do them. That's 7 less mail carrier jobs.
Eric
Also with Staples now 'partnered' with USPS. The people who make your photcopies now can sell you stamps and mail packages. Don't ask them about any serives, since they've had no training. Don't try to file a claim either. But they can copy that form you you. Do you want a color copy or blank & white?
Heh, I was called a Grognard.
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777
MY ALWAYS TRADE LIST: Scar Weaver, wmeredith, bloodstrike, tionas, wetstone, Frank Austin, akum, SW-DABOSS, Galador, nahatley, Joeb, Squeakula, mongse, con-fusion, basaint, jugglingfool, IsaiahTheBarbarian, Purple40k, Standard of War, BA-Best .
USPS Postal Inspectors: 1-877-876-2455
USPS complaint center delivery problem, lost mail, track & confirm, etc. 1-800-275-8777