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ohoffm
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 6:01 PM | |
Reuters Article
Spolier alert: They are saying the price of a forever stamp will go up .03 to .58.
Time to stock up on the forevers for future PWEs or did they just do a press release to get an infusion of cash?
They say volume is way down. The trading on this site may be the only thing keeping the USPS afloat.
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mzentko
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 6:17 PM | |
thanks for the heads up
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cardcollector65jw
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 8:29 PM | |
Thank you for sharing. Do you have a link?
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jimetal7212
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 8:30 PM | |
It was the very first thing in the OP's post......
cardcollector65jw wrote:
Thank you for sharing. Do you have a link?
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ravenfaith77
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 8:56 PM | |
I wonder will this increase be temporary?
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cardcollector65jw
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 9:18 PM | |
Its hot and I'm not seeing right apparently
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ravenfaith77
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 9:36 PM | |
I'm not seeing it either.
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jimetal7212
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 9:40 PM | |
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DyeHardFan
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 9:53 PM | |
USPS Zoom Meeting of the Postmaster General
"Okay, so people aren't sending enough mail for us to meet our revenue goals... how do we get them to send more mail?"
"Make it more expensive?"
"BRILLIANT!"
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spazmatastic
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 9:54 PM | |
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. I don't just mean b/c they claim shipping is down again. This increase was scheduled a long time ago. USPS price increases are posted on their site LONG before they happen. You just have to know where to look.
This is not a temporary increase. It was scheduled for last year but the pandemic made the US Government tell USPS to halt the increase in price at the time. I think this increase would have still been on hold if the CDC and most states didn't relax COVID protocols. Dropping mask mandates and raising public gathering limits put this USPS increase back into play. Those who have nothing to do with the USPS have no idea how much the pandemic affected the USPS. The price increase really needed to happen before the pandemic, but it couldn't b/c the mandate was for June of last year and the government said NO during a pandemic. But the USPS lost a TON of money during the pandemic. Some people will wonder how... The USPS had thousands of workers working overtime to try to get all the packages delivered that were going to people stuck at home ordering everything they needed online! That is how the USPS lost a ton of money! They still have to deliver the mail, they had people that were on sick-leave too (2-week quarantine for anyone testing positive for the virus OR in close-contact with someone who tested positive) and all those people still get paid if they are using sick-leave. I'm surprised the price increase wasn't heightened due to COVID. Three cents per stamp is nothing compared to what it could have been, especially if Trump was still the President. I am not typing this to back ANY President, but only stating the facts. I know we have some USPS workers that can back up what I am stating here. This price increase was going to happen anyway. USPS is still cheaper by the ounce than UPS and FedEx. Both of the latter use USPS to deliver their small packages to the final destination anyway. USPS should charge UPS and FedEx more to deliver the packages they dump on USPS!
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