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US Stamp Prices To Go Up

The beleaguered U.S. Postal Service is hoping to increase stamp costs to help them stay competitive, marking the biggest change in its pricing system in nearly a half-century. Full Story

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Postage increase plan
August 14, 2017 8:21 am

The art of card sending for holidays, special occasions has been replaced by techno world. When the postage decreased briefly last year, I increased the letter support to military, sad to see it rose back to original cost, before holiday greetings were planned. I believe raising cost will adversely affect po, card shops etc. too many options of on line bill paying, free shipping and e-cards to compete. I know many European and Austrian Ian pen pals say $1.20 a letter is beyond their fixed income in bulk greeting mailings. Don’t shot yourself in foot, higher prices will decrease volume… Read more »

Forever Stamps
August 12, 2017 9:09 am

(#1) – All organizations have their share of lazy employees, it is hard when Unions are involved to get rid of these employees. Many take pride in their work and genuinely care about the service provided. (#2) – The post office is a Privately run organization, it is just regulated by the federal government. It is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. (#3) – Stamps are forever stamps, that means if you purchase… Read more »

Out of town
August 11, 2017 8:58 am

The post office experience in Crown Heights is a total disgrace, We live out of town, far away from Brooklyn, it’s a different experience, just a breeze!

Not all Mail-Persons are bad
August 10, 2017 8:07 pm

Our Mail-Person is the Best! Keisha brings us the mail conscientiously every day and Always goes the extra mile! She even asks if we have any outgoing mail… And when she’s out, her replacement, Latoya, is just as sweet & helpful!

how about when
August 10, 2017 6:10 pm

you get a delivery they tell you it’s the wrong address, when it has the right address on the front or everybody mail gets in my mailbox that l do not know or wrong addresses being drop into my mail box,l get stacks of mail that really junk

Agree
August 10, 2017 5:51 pm

I couldn’t agree more with #1 and #2. The postal service has the laziest, slowest most inept employees! Why didn’t their study show that?

The elderly
August 10, 2017 4:03 pm

The ones who will be hit the most with this are the elderly who still use the mail service exclusively. Everyone else will just use the internet more for letters. Even invitations are starting to be sent more by evite.

WHAT ?
August 10, 2017 1:12 pm

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE “FOREVER STAMPS” ??

Laziest employees
August 10, 2017 12:12 pm

They have the laziest employees and the worst customer service. Like all government-run organizations, there is virtually no employee oversight.

They lose packages, make late deliveries, lie about delivering items that were never delivered, and have the worst customer service both over the phone and at the Post Office.

They should sell the USPS to a private company.

um...
August 10, 2017 11:50 am

instead of raising the price of stamps and buying new trucks, how about starting with employees who actually do their jobs??

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