The post office could charge less for stamps if they didn't have to fill our boxes with low cost worthless advertising and campaign promises. I swear most people could heat their house with the "free" paper that gets stuck in their post office box.
USPS Rate Hike
- Thread starter SASABERANGER
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2 "Baconators" $20
2 Fries $10
2 Iced tea lg. $ 7
Tax (Osc Co 7.5%$2.77
I guess I'm 23 cents short. Joe
I've read that the USPS turns a profit on operations. It's pension plan obligations that's sucking the life out of their bottom line.
Am grateful we still have a post office in city (2400 pop). Do i trust everyone that works there? Not by a long shot but is true of any business or gooberment entity.
In our city, pretty sure the mail is only delivered to individual addresses several days a week. At least for people who don't get much mail. My mailbox is empty most days, then stuffed full on some days.
In our city, pretty sure the mail is only delivered to individual addresses several days a week. At least for people who don't get much mail. My mailbox is empty most days, then stuffed full on some days.
I just renewed our PO Box in our rural AZ town. We have a PO Box for our 'important' mail because of the rate of mail theft and resulting fraud. This year our PO Box renewal was $230. Four years ago it was $80. When we first got the box in 2006 it was $36/year. Anyone want to say that's just inflation?
The most infuriating part is that nothing, nada, zero has been done to improve the facility or service to the community in that time. Same crappy facility, same long lines due to lack of counter help. One clerk at a time, just like 17 years ago. The rate of misboxed mail has actually increased substantially in the last few years.
Sure, a single letter is cheap to mail in the abstract, but when you consider the big picture, it's harder to say that USPS is doing it well.
The most infuriating part is that nothing, nada, zero has been done to improve the facility or service to the community in that time. Same crappy facility, same long lines due to lack of counter help. One clerk at a time, just like 17 years ago. The rate of misboxed mail has actually increased substantially in the last few years.
Sure, a single letter is cheap to mail in the abstract, but when you consider the big picture, it's harder to say that USPS is doing it well.
Targets Guy
US Veteran
My dad was a rural mail carrier back in the late 1950's, early 1960's. 100 plus mile route and 300 stops. I used to ride with him when the weather was bad. That is because I would be the guy to go get the farmer out with his tractor to pull dad out of the ditch or snowbank. I got to know a lot of farmers back then. With me riding no snow bank was to deep for my dad. In the spring when the frost came out of the ground the gravel roads would lose their bottom and we'd get hung up in soft mud.
Most of the rural stops got to know dad pretty good and he made out like a bandit during Christmas; cakes, pies, hams, chickens filled the mail boxes for him. He carried a K-22 with him on the route and would come home with rabbits and pheasants many a day. I still have the K-22. Many, many memories with the revolver.
Most of the rural stops got to know dad pretty good and he made out like a bandit during Christmas; cakes, pies, hams, chickens filled the mail boxes for him. He carried a K-22 with him on the route and would come home with rabbits and pheasants many a day. I still have the K-22. Many, many memories with the revolver.
Targets Guy
US Veteran
We live in a town of about 600 folks and get our mail delivered every day but Sunday. The mail carrier will even bring the mail to the door when it won't fit in our mailbox.
CAJUNLAWYER
Member
Yea but that same .66 allows for a letter going 10 miles away to go via Baton Rouge, New orleans and then to destination in 7 days so I am definitely getting my money's worth...
Kinda like playing golf-my cost per stroke is at least half of my pard's
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