United States Post Office (USPS) Strikes again!!!
They’re at it again! Seems like every year we hear the United States Post Office needs more money for their monopolistic services. First class mail will be going up again 2 cents, one whole penny LESS than what they’re asking for. Now they’ve got an “excellent” idea. Instead of making us buy those little 2 cent stamps to cover the rate increase for our “outdated” stamps, they are suggesting a “forever” stamp.
The proposal of the “forever” stamp works like this; if you bought a “forever” stamp and the rate changes, you would be able to use that “forever” stamp on first class mail and they will honor it at the current rate so you don’t have to buy 1 or 2 cent stamps to make up the difference. Good idea? Possibly, but the joke is that it’s only with the “forever” stamp. If you bought other stamps before the increase you still have to buy the 1 or 2 cent stamps. So you’d have to buy ONLY forever stamps if you want to have your stamps honored at current rate, and probably in bulk.
What about the breast cancer stamps and others that a portion goes toward raising funds? Why shouldn’t those be honored? It seems to me that just because the rate increases, they should honor all outdated stamps regardless. You buy first class stamps to get a letter from A to B expecting that service to be performed once you place that stamp on the envelope. Postmaster General John E. Potter says “the Postal Service is not immune to the cost pressures affecting every household and business in America.
For example, each penny increase in the price of a gallon of gasoline costs the post office $8 million, and the post office cannot simply add a fuel surcharge to its rates.”
Yet, they have fewer implicated costs than a normal business. Such as taxes and insurance for their fleet of mail trucks. Those alone are MAJOR expenses that the USPS is exempt from whereas, a normal business is not.
The fact is that the United States Post Office is one of the biggest Monopolies in America. They let very little competition in because they want the revenue. Are they afraid that if there was competition that we would have a cheaper alternate? Fewer mistakes? Less mail arriving looking like it was in the midst of an illegal dog fight? Don’t know the exact reasoning behind it all is. In the past I had thought the price of postage was somewhat reasonable, but to see that they are now charging for EVERYTHING and the extras you add on to the first class letter even more expensive is becoming absurd. And that’s not all folks look at what other rates they’re hiking right along with it. I wonder… is it just me that thinks the USPS is the “Donald Trump” of the postal tycoon biz?
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