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In lugnet.market.shipping, Ben Roller writes: (snip) (...) Yep. Also keep in mind that the USPS has far more mailing points than either FedEx or UPS (counting counters here, not drop boxes). My 'local' UPS mailing options (less than 70 miles r/t) (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) It may well kill Priority Mail, period. Their attempt to maximise revenue may move them to a far different place on the demand curve (as in, far less demand!) meaning they get less revenue after all. I'm happy to overpay on short distances and (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Well, first of all, I've found that the people that complain most about a business are the people that work there, so that's not necesarily an extra bad sign. Anyway, I didn't know, so I looked for the definitions of the zones. I found this on (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) For those of you who detest all of those junk mailers, try the following: If the mailer includes a postage paid mail back envelope, just stuff everything they sent (including the outer envelope) back in the mail back envelope and return it to (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) It's not so much the increase that is bugging me, but rather that they are going to the zoned system for all Priority Mail packages over 1 pound now instead of 5 pounds. Not only is this coing to make it substantially more expensive to ship (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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