Postal Service Seeks 2-Cent First-Class Stamp Increase
From the AP via Yahoo: The post office wants an extra 2-cents-worth for its stamps. However, at the same time Friday that the agency proposed the stamp price increase, it also invited Congress to eliminate the need for it.
Yahoo! News - Postal Service Seeks 2-Cent Stamp Increase
You know what frosts me about this? First-Class mail is what keeps the Postal Service in the black, yet most mail sent is bulk-rate advertising junk. It’s long past time the Postal Service stopped forcing bill payers to subsidize the crap companies continually foist on consumers (be honest…how many unsolicited credit card offers have you received in the past month?). If you want to raise rates, it’s time to raise the rates of commercial bulk mail and leave the First-Class rates alone.
What? That would mean less bulk mail would be sent? So what the bloody heck is wrong with that?
April 13th, 2005 at 10:10 am
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.