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The price to ship with the United States Postal Service will increase among all its services beginning Jan. 19.
This comes after the USPS reported a net loss of $9.5 billion this year, over $3 billion more lost than the year before.
“Over 80% of our current year net loss is attributed to factors that are outside of management’s control,” according to the department.
Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express services will increase their prices by 3.2%, and USPS Ground Advantage prices will be up by 3.9%. Parcel Select services, which apply to large-volume shipping, will see the largest price hike at 9.2%. The agency attempted to increase the price of its parcel service by 25% but failed. more
Hard to believe that Benjamin Franklin was once Postmaster General .
Get rid of waste, fraud, and DEI, and Postal rates might once again become reasonable. I won’t hold my breath.
First class mail remaining at 73 cents, after last year’s increase.
Meh, I send a few cards, not going to worry if it costs around a buck. If I mailed in volume I might care. Re the other costs, they have to compete with UPS, FedEx, etc. so whatever they think makes sense.
Also: sell it! Sell it to a company that knows how to cut costs, as any government agency is perpetually incapable of doing.
So USPS will just cause shippers to go back to UPS, FEDEX, DHL, etc. to ship their products resulting in an even bigger loss for USPS.
Why is everything, piece of krap, I order that comes from China has a low price and free shipping?? How’s that work?
ABOLISH THE FIRST CLASS MONOPOLY, let any and all deliver whatever they want, and get the failed government out of ALL means of communication.
rayciss, ucaint be gittin rid of no ‘gro jobs!
two weeks to get a package from Cincinnati to Fort Smith by USPS. how do they stay in business?
I have had shit from ill-noise (4 hours away) take 3 weeks of transit time… and shit from england take 3 days.
FUCK the USPS!
Subprime- Government-protected MONOPOLY.
My rural PO is absolutely worthless. Has taken 4-5 days to travel from Nashville to Lafayette (35 miles) many times. Tracking sometimes says ‘out for delivery’ and around 5-6 changes to ‘ delivery address inaccessible’….bullshit, I’m waiting on my porch. The slacker just calls it a day.
A friend sent 6 small-ish packages from western WA to N.D. over Christmas via UPS. She was charged $58.00 for a cardboard shipping box, and $240.00 for shipping. Something’s not right.
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Wut? She should have shipped them Fed X next day air. For about half the cost. Unless they were made out of lead. That’s waaaay out of line.
In October, I had a package go back and forth from my post office, to the main hub, back to my post office, then to the northern hub, then back to the southern hub, then back to my post office. And 8 days later, it got to where it was going. And yeah, it was in a priority mail box. Printed label.
Last year, my sister sent me a box from CA. It went to Houston, TX, had some tacos and brisket and whatever boxes eat, then stayed 1 week at a Holiday Inn. Then it finally got to me.
No weather conditions, proper labels, etc.
It has been happening more often. Especially the bouncing back and forth from hub to hub.
The woman who delivers my mail is an absolute peach. (not sarcasm)
But she works for a shit organization.
MJA — I think the postal service is playing around with gross shipping weights and full shipments in order to cook the books for year-to-year funding. If they can keep a certain amount of weight (mostly through box shipments) circulating in “the system” (of contracted long-haulers, local box trucks, and airplanes), over a given period of time (weeks, probably, where one week’s weights and numbers slip into the next reporting period and count there, too), they can justify their budget and show a need for increases the next year.
This is all just speculation on my part, but it’s the only thing that makes sense to me, based on what their only metrics are and how they budget. As was recently seen in the Oversight hearing, the Post Master General has zero plan to change any of it, because he sees nothing to fix.
…something similar but in a different way here in Seattle, is that ridership is almost non-existent on various Metro bus routes because bums, drug addicts and the insane ride around for free, and normal people who pay don’t want to be assaulted, many of our buses run around with no riders. All day long. Instead of cutting the number of runs or doing something to get rid of the riff-raff, they needlessly spend all that overhead of keeping empty buses on the streets.
I sent a small box to NY from here in the middle of everywhere Kansas. Tracking said it arrived in two days. I went to the post office the next day and they handed my package back to me. I said tracking says it arrived in NY, so they checked the status with their sneaky, super secret, government tracking software and it said it was delivered. Yet I held it in my hands. Anyway, it got there about 6 days later and they did the work on my product and returned it to me about 3 weeks later…..Amazon reimburses delivery charges when they foul things up…..
How much are they losing on amazon?
@Wilson,
At least here in WAwa land the USPS delivers about 1/3 of packages from Amazon sellers. At least to my address less than 1 mile to Amazon Fulfillment Center and Distribution Center.
What kind of poor business wonks are the USPS to lose money on that? Although if USPS bans are running on Aundays here, it is likely Amazon.
2-day delivery? Sorry no guarantee. Insure your package? Why, you won’t pay if you lose the package.
UPS: Your package will arrive tomorrow at 4:51 PM, your driver’s name is Mike.
FedEx: Your package will get there when it gets there.
USPS: What package?