Postage Rates Are Going Up Monday...!!!

[Hogleg 44]

Monday May 14. First class mail is 41 cents, first oz.
What do we get for the extra 2 cents?
Better Service!

http://www.usps.com/prices/

[billbunton]

Originally Posted by Hogleg 44

Monday May 14. First class mail is 41 cents, first oz.
What do we get for the extra 2 cents?
Better Service!

Yeah, right... I already had my wife go and buy nine more $.02 stamps, so now we can use the last of the $.37 stamps...

[Digital Prophet]

What a crock of crap. And don't even get me started on the idiotic notion of thier "forever" stamps or whatever they are going to call them.

Mark my words: Eventually they are just going to move to a straight regressive tax to fund the post office.

Prophet out.

[Night Owl]

More cash flow for them. Same crappy service for us.

I've been tracking my D200 from NY. First, USPS's tracking is utter feces. By the time it says anything but "shipping information received", its been rotting on your doorstep for a day. Second, the package made it from NY to Houston in two days, but has now been stuck between 77040 (wherever that is) and 77065 (in the same freakin' town) for another two.

Stupid USPS.

FedEx is no better. Those arsehats drove past my house without delivering a package, pressed "delivered", then didn't make it back to actually follow through for 24 hrs.

They're getting lazy without competition.

[Glen_A]

I can still remember the 10 cent stamp.............dang guess I am showing my age.

[JamesB]

thats for first class mail.

2nd and 3rd class mail has lower rates. they step on it one more time and it takes 1 day longer to deliver.

use your 37 cent stamps with out adding additional postage and it will still get to whre you want it to.

James

[Hogleg 44]

Originally Posted by JamesB

use your 37 cent stamps with out adding additional postage and it will still get to whre you want it to.
James

Um Hum. But the USPS site says the recipient will have to ante up for the extra 2 cents!
Yeah! Sure!
I can just see all the letter carriers taking those underpaid letters back to the PO with them, and leaving all of those pickup notices instead!
Expect to get your mail at midnight for a few weeks!