Postage Rates

[Narragansett]

Well, I went to the post office and got 100 stamps. $73.00 dollars. I thought the price was 69 cents a stamp. Talk about inflation, excessive labor costs or mismanagement, the price is rising 8-10 % a year.

 

[Chuck24]

When I started at the Post Office, a ways back in time, stamps were a nickel and shortly after went to 7 cents. Doom and apocalypse were predicted

 

[lihpster]

Still a bargain.

 

[ladder13]

Well, I went to the post office and got 100 stamps. $73.00 dollars. I thought the price was 69 cents a stamp. Talk about inflation, excessive labor costs or mismanagement, the price is rising 8-10 % a year.

That’s nothing. Letters are a loss leader, have you mailed a package lately?

 

[Rustyt1953]

73¢ won't take me very far if I have to deliver an envelope myself.

 

[DWalt]

Postage prices will drop when the USPS gets all those new economical electric delivery vans on the road.

 

[Rudi]

Still a bargain.

Yep. We've all had beefs with the USPS, but to send a Christmas card to the UK is only a buck.

 

[gjgalligan]

When the USPS learns how to deliver items to the proper address without going to several out-of -the -way cities & states then maybe they will start to be profitable.

 

[Narragansett]

That’s nothing. Letters are a loss leader, have you mailed a package lately?

I did. Very small 2.1lbs, $12.95. That was on top of the 73 dollars of postage

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

I remember back when the Forever stamps first came out, there was a story about a retired gentleman who bought $2000 worth. I wonder if he wad able to use all of them.

John

 

[Yendor357]

Hate to tell you, but you’re paying more than 73 cents for a stamp because the post office is subsidized with your tax dollars.

And I agree. That’s still a bargain.

 

[GypsmJim]

A stand up comedian had a joke that went something like this.....

"I walked into a Post Office with a letter but had no stamp. The clerk behind the counter sold me a stamp and took my letter. I replied " you mean to tell me you are going to take this letter all the way to Alaska in 3 days and it's only going to cost me 73 cents?"

 

[SJshooter]

$4.41 to mail a three-ounce thick envelope across the US as a parcel. About to go up. Ridiculous.

 

[pasound]

It's sad at the rate of inflation on letters. UPS and FedEx rates are jumping too. Also, local delivery. I have a P.O. Box that I got in the mid-70's for $20 a year. My annual bill for a box that collects 60-75% misdirected mail is now $182 a year. Closed it.

I bought two hundred Forevers several years ago at, if I remember, $0.48 each. Soon after I quit getting my bills in the mail and started paying online. I still have 9 stamps left. Should I frame them?

 

[Onomea]

I recall seamail fondly. Would take a couple of months for stuff to arrive, but it was cheap. Used to move back and forth from Japan that way as a student in the 70s, clothing, books, etc. Cheap.

Sent two sets of pajamas to Japan for my grandkids for Christmas during the pandemic a coupla years ago. $80!

 

[DWalt]

I bought 200 stamps just before the last postage hike. Should last awhile as most of my payments are on credit cards which are paid with monthly direct drafts on my bank account. My guess is we probably don’t use more than 50 to 75 stamps per year. And write even fewer checks.

 

[AugieTN]

If they get rid of the Post Office and gave all the mail to UPS & Fedex it would probably be about $3 to mail a letter

 

[charlie sherrill]

Stamps for letters don't bother me too much. I use four or five a month to mail bills. Used to be a lot more. What bothers me is when we send a package in the US it costs many more times than foreign packages coming into the US, especially China. I don't buy much from overseas now because if you have to return it most of the time the US shipping is more than what the product costs.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

That's why I don't send many Christmas cards.

 

[BigBoy99]

I remember back when the Forever stamps first came out, there was a story about a retired gentleman who bought $2000 worth. I wonder if he wad able to use all of them.

John

I still have a roll left of the several rolls of stamps I bought for $48 a roll.