Comments on: Postal Service Seeks 2-Cent First-Class Stamp Increase http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2005/04/08/postal-service-seeks-2-cent-first-class-stamp-increase/ Ramblings of an Old Man on Old-Time and Contemporary Radio, Television, the Arts, and the News; includes OTR Podcast Sat, 6 Sep 2008 05:14:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Tom Kirby http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2005/04/08/postal-service-seeks-2-cent-first-class-stamp-increase/#comment-824 Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:10:23 +0000 http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2005/04/08/postal-service-seeks-2-cent-first-class-stamp-increase/#comment-824 The credit card offers are particularly annoying, since it's dangerous to just throw them away, and let some potential identity thief have access to them. I don't really mind the catalogs, as long as they're not for embarrassing medical supplies, but I do agree that they need to pay their fair share. Maybe more and more people are using e-mail for personal communication because writing is getting more and more expensive, meaning that people will send less first-class mail, meaning that the pest office will be back asking for another increase because of lower first-class usage, etc., etc., etc. At least with e-mail, there are junk filter options available. I say this because the first story I read said that the post office wanted the rate increase because of the drop in revenue from first-class mailings. The credit card offers are particularly annoying, since it’s dangerous to just throw them away, and let some potential identity thief have access to them. I don’t really mind the catalogs, as long as they’re not for embarrassing medical supplies, but I do agree that they need to pay their fair share.

Maybe more and more people are using e-mail for personal communication because writing is getting more and more expensive, meaning that people will send less first-class mail, meaning that the pest office will be back asking for another increase because of lower first-class usage, etc., etc., etc. At least with e-mail, there are junk filter options available.

I say this because the first story I read said that the post office wanted the rate increase because of the drop in revenue from first-class mailings.

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