PSA: Postage rate increase. Again

[g-dad]

For those of us that still use snail mail might want to consider buying your Forever stamps before the 14th of July.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...ever-stamp-rate-ahead-of-increase/ar-BB1peYLH

 

[DWalt]

That is to pay for all those new USPS EV delivery vehicles and 20K charging stations.

 

[NYlakesider]

I can remember when first married (early 1970s) that I/we probably used 20 stamps a month!

Since the newfangled ways of doing business and other communications we are down to about 2 stamps a month average today.

FWIW the amount of mail and that includes junk type spam mail are way down also

 

[g-dad]

I can remember 3 grade when we learned the proper way to address an envelope. Our class had a list of "pen pals" from somewhere in the good old USA that we sent these properly addressed envelopes to. I believe the postage at that time was 3 cents. Post cards were a penny or 2.

 

[Rudi]

I just had to pay $200 rent on my PO Box for a year. WOW!!

 

[Chuck24]

Was by the office I retired from the other day. The 1994 LLV I drove is still going strong.

 

[Bald1]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If I have an envelope in NY with important info in it and I need said envelope to be In California .73 cents is a bargain. If it was $1 it would still be the best bargain I bought all week.

 

[Grayfox]

All I ever buy is Forever stamps. Just bought some about a week ago.

 

[Rustyt1953]

To repeat myself:


"The U.S. Postal Service handles around 500 million pieces of mail every day. UPS and FedEx deliver 34 million packages combined. Those are astounding numbers and their failure rates barely budge the needle.

Gas up your car and try retrieving/delivering your own mail/parcels for the same rates as those three charge and see how that works out.

They do Herculean tasks everyday. If my stuff is late once in a while I cut them slack because they cast huge nets and there are bound to be a few holes here and there."

 

[g-dad]

Yep, post office has a lot to with the resources they have.

My OP wasn't about bashing the po, just letting you know costs are going up!

 

[KalamazooKid]

I can remember 3 grade when we learned the proper way to address an envelope. Our class had a list of "pen pals" from somewhere in the good old USA that we sent these properly addressed envelopes to. I believe the postage at that time was 3 cents. Post cards were a penny or 2.

And gas was $0.20/ gallon.

 

[pharman]

Well I'll "bash" them...

On June 13 I sent 3 S&W manuals to another member on the Forum in Louisville, KY...I live in Ohio...they were sent in a large envelope and I even went into the local post office and had the postal clerk put the correct postage on it...he never got them...even after 21 days (today) he has NOT got them...I phoned the Louisville, KY post office and asked for help in possibly locating the letter in their facility...i.e. maybe it got misplaced somewhere there or got caught in the cancelling machine...the clerk informed me there was nothing she could do...she was very rude...Ohio is NOT very far from Louisville...I sure would like to know what happened to the letter...and I should be OK with them wanting a stamp price increase??? I DON'T think so...Roger

 

[Tom S.]

To repeat myself:


"The U.S. Postal Service handles around 500 million pieces of mail every day. UPS and FedEx deliver 34 million packages combined. Those are astounding numbers and their failure rates barely budge the needle.

Gas up your car and try retrieving/delivering your own mail/parcels for the same rates as those three charge and see how that works out.

They do Herculean tasks everyday. If my stuff is late once in a while I cut them slack because they cast huge nets and there are bound to be a few holes here and there."

499.9 million of that 500 million are about to become political ads, which the post office can keep - IMHO.

 

[Rustyt1953]

499.9 million of that 500 million are about to become political ads, which the post office can keep - IMHO.

They may be fire pit fodder but the USPS delivers them nonetheless.

 

[Muss Muggins]

All I ever buy is Forever stamps. Just bought some about a week ago.

Can you actually buy a first class stamp other than a forever stamp?

#askingforafriend

 

[riverrat38]

........ I believe the postage at that time was 3 cents. Post cards were a penny or 2.

In 1955, when I was 12 years old, it was 3 cents by ground. If you wanted a letter to go "VIA AIR MAIL", then it cost 6 cents for the stamp, and people used light weight paper and envelopes. The stamps had a biplane on them. We have had about 12 times inflation since then.
I thought that they would wait until after the election to raise the price of stamps, but I guess the delay would be too costly!
I am experiencing a higher "lost in the mail" rate than in the past. I bought a USPS MO, and mailed it in a pre addressed envelope to a century old organization. The ARRL, which is the ham radio version of the NRA. This was for dues. They didn't get the letter and I had to pay $18 dollars for a search for the MO. I thought that was unfair, since they were the ones who lost it. I got a check for the missing MO, but was still out the $18.
And my PO Box costs more than double what it cost about 12 years ago.

73,
Rick

 

[H Richard]

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I have never experienced any lost mail ever. At Christmas maybe 15 years ago I mailed 2 "large" boxes of Christmas presents to Seattle area from IL. I used the Priority 3 day mail. The one box got there in 6 days, the 2nd box "finally" got there 2 weeks later on Christmas eve. When I mentioned this to the Postal clerks, I was told there is "no guarantee" on Priority mail. Don't waste your money on it, send parcel post it gets there just as quick.

 

[NYlakesider]

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I have never experienced any lost mail ever. At Christmas maybe 15 years ago I mailed 2 "large" boxes of Christmas presents to Seattle area from IL. I used the Priority 3 day mail. The one box got there in 6 days, the 2nd box "finally" got there 2 weeks later on Christmas eve. When I mentioned this to the Postal clerks, I was told there is "no guarantee" on Priority mail. Don't waste your money on it, send parcel post it gets there just as quick.

When dealing with the PO you got to remember they have a lot of rules, all in their favor!