[Innovative]

That's why "forever" stamps are good, you don't have to keep track of the ever increasing prices of stamps.

[Straight Vermonter]

I haven’t used stamps in years. I do buy some once a year to mail Christmas cards.

[mountainlion]

My Post Office has been closed for four and a half months! I was told by some here that if the po was over a mile away the po had to deliver mail, not so here. The drive after the flood to get mail was almost 200 miles. It is down to about 50 round trip now. Kewit got highway 34 back in two months. The Post Office is so poorly managed that they did not get the mud off of the floor in 2 months. They keep telling me that the PO will open in two weeks, it looks more like two years to me.

[alloysteel]

And still more bills get paid online, eliminating the payment by paper check mailed before the due date.

The entire Postal Service is quickly becoming as obsolete as one of its earlier service programs, the Pony Express, as technology advances.

They COULD run around and get in front of this avalanche of electronically transmitted information transfer, but they are a little late to the game. Perhaps some version of an e-mail service, using street address and the specific name of the recipient, for a modest monthly fee. Worked for years with Yahoo and AOL.

But then, it would be a government program, and probably be as badly designed and insecure as the Obamacare on-line signup.

[I want the USA back]

And so more and more people switch to electronic bill paying. This will lead to lower mailing volume, and a demand for higher rates, which will lead to lower volume, etc etc.

[EagleUSA]

The present USPS in its horrid condition, is a real marker in government history. I am old enough to remember as a youngster going to the post office to buy one penny post cards and three cent first class and five cent air mail stamps.

At that time and for decades after, the REAL United States Post Office was the ONLY department of our government that actually generated a profit. Those profit dollars went into the general fund. Now look at what we have. Speaks volumes.

[Nea Wood]

Postal service in my town absolutely sucks. Right now I’m taking in my neighbor’s mail while he’s on vacation because our post office simply will not keep people’s mail while they’re on vacation. Oh, they’ll pretend to. You can go on the website and ask for your mail to be held from X date to X date, and they’ll even give you a printable receipt promising to do so. Or you can go to the post office in person and fill out a form. They’ll even give you a choice of whether you want all the mail delivered at once upon your return, or whether you want to come pick it all up. But the postal employees must laugh their heads off when you walk out, because it simply is NEVER done. Not once have they held my mail; each and every time, I come home to a stuffed mailbox, and same with my neighbors. If the post office can’t even do that, they are a bunch of incompetents. Plus I’m always getting other people’s mail, and they get mine. I for one will be happy to see the post office go away. They are a bunch of surly, incompetent boobs, far, far, from the old saying about the “couriers in rain, snow,” etc.

[Don Corleone]

I am old enough to remember 3 cent stamps and penny post cards. I also had lunch with Ben Franklin. I paid.

[Salvation]

Bump for the forever stamps. It’s all I buy.