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Pillar of the Community
United States
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wanted to post this where everyone could see it.
Just thought I would let everyone know that the postage prices on the flat rate boxes went up. the online price is now 5.00 instead of 4.85 for small flat rate boxes. all other boxes have went up also
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I noticed a different webpage when calculating postage tonight also. Is everyone seeing that?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1213 Posts |
I guess the post office is trying to get their raise where they can. Since their recent postage stamp price increase request was refused, apparently they're going with shipping price increases.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
I got a notice that UPS rates are also increasing this year
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Raising postage rates? Impossible. If you are on Social Security or know people that are they can tell you that they just received a notice from our government stating the cost of living has not icreased since 2008. So this would indicate that since the postal department is part of our government, there has been no increases since 2008.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
justcarl, don't forget the recession has been over since 09...if our governmant hadn't announced that,I would have never realized it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
The government will just say that they edited out the inflation rates on volatile postage rates like they do other volatile things like gasoline and food prices.
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Valued Member
United States
327 Posts |
I still think the flat rate boxes from USPS are the way to go. UPS dominated for a long time. USPS was very smart to make this move and it has paid off for them big time. I was tired of getting gouged by UPS because they felt they were the only game in town. No longer.
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Valued Member
United States
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I was talking to a guy yesterday about this. He works at the post office and said they haven't had a cost of living increases in a few years and were just told they will not get one in 2011.
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Valued Member
United States
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email killed letter volume for post office so they have huge costs divided over fewer and fewer pieces of letter mail. bet the only part of the business growing is packages from online shopping.
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Posted 01/02/2011 9:55 pm
