I recently found a picture postcard in a batch of old pictures. It is to my Grandmother when she was still a girl. It has to have been mailed before 1912. Notice the postage. I also found it interesting that it was in color.
Posted on 02/17/2012 1:10:30 PM PST by Java4Jay
The U.S. Post Office, facing financial losses of up to $18.2 billion a year by 2015, wants to charge more for postage, more for services, and to suspend Saturday delivery.
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I do believe, in light of technological advances i.e. email, electronic bill pay, etc., that it would make sense to go to a MWF delivery system. I think post offices should be open on Saturday, though, because that is the only day many can get to them.
And although the Constitution maintains that the US Gov’t have a postal service, it seems to me competition for it should be allowed. We’d just have to have a U.S. Mail of some type even if there were competitors.
Thanks Obama
Wait,,a fifty cent stamp might be first of a new series. Next is NWA,, then snoop,,
They might have done that already. I went in to what used to be a very busy P.O.the other day and joked how I could walk right up to the counter. I wanted to mail a small box that used to cost me about 5.00 to mail and they wanted 13.00 to mail it! That was more than UPS with insurance and real tracking. I ask about the cost and I was told rates went up 3 weeks ago, particularly for none local deliveries.
I recently found a picture postcard in a batch of old pictures. It is to my Grandmother when she was still a girl. It has to have been mailed before 1912. Notice the postage. I also found it interesting that it was in color.
They should hire a rapper to sell their rap.
Just shows how government types solve a problem. Not making money? Charge more? The more they charge the more attractive alternatives such as online bill pay become.
Not too bright.
Home delivery is not mandated (it began about the time of the Civil War) It may be worth it to drop the home delivery and allow private, contracted delivery services to handle Door to door deliveries.
Dear USPS: Consider privatizing.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/03/news/companies/usps_postal_service_privatize.fortune/
Easily 90% of what arrives in my post box is stuff that I don’t want and didn’t ask for. I pay my bills online. The USPS sucks.
50cent stamp.
So now there is a rapper stamp?
What is this country coming to?
Mailing a letter next door, using a government service: 50 cents.
Having someone grow a kiwi fruit in New Zealand, harvesting it, shipping it to the United States, and buying it at a supermarket, all using private services: about 33 cents.
That will end my mass Christmas card mailings.
100 cards = $50
And that doesn’t include the price of the cards!
I use the Post Office almost daily to mail packages. The rates did go up from .05 to .25 cents. The rates are also affected by weight,size of package and Zones. A 1 lb package sent priority mail with delivery confirmation to Zone 2 Fresno is $5.95 while the exact same package sent to South Carolina Zone 8 costs $7.05
I have a postcard mailed in 1940. Postage was one cent.
Of course, letters could be mailed for three cents. Air mail was eight cents.
That's a great point
And I'm sorry to be the one to tell you but somehow, someway, pointing that out makes you a racist or against the poor, or working poor or something like that. Also, you kick puppies... and the puppies are also poor
What is a post office?
Every time they raise the price I start paying another bill online. My wife retired from the USPS I know first hand some of the waste that goes on.
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