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Re: US Postal rates to increase this July
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lugnet.market.shipping
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Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:25:48 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shipping, Matt Hein writes:
> In lugnet.market.shipping, John Radtke writes:
> > A post office employee told me back before the holidays already that if the
> > proposed rate changes went through they would put themselves right out of
> > the Priority Mail business. Not a good sign when your own workers can't
> > find something good to say....
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> > John
> > #388
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> It seems that the postal service just keeps raising the prices to ship
> things. What's up woth that? You think 9-11 had to do with that?
Well, First Class Mail is taking nearly twice as long to reach its
destination as it used to; I blame security procedures and (for some
things) more vigilant customs or even irradiation for it. But I'm
happy to pay higher prices--the USPS, for domestic mail, is still a
steal IMHO.
> It is kind of sad that the postal service's workers think that way. Well, I
> guess that's because of the increasing competition with Fed-Ex, etc.
FedEx has taken up the contract for handling much of the USPS's Express
Mail service anyways--it's not like they're really in competition anymore.
> Well, I never use Priority mail to send my Lego anyway, It's kind of slow,
> and the insurance rates are awful.
Kind of slow? I've never had a Priority Mail package take more than
three days.
LFB
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: US Postal rates to increase this July
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| "Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:GtG930.GFJ@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) of (...) Anthax will do that to you. And extremely bad management. What manager wouldn't want a job that pays you a huge bonus for losing money. (...) (23 years ago, 24-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.shipping)
| | | Re: US Postal rates to increase this July
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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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| | Re: US Postal rates to increase this July
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| (...) It seems that the postal service just keeps raising the prices to ship things. What's up woth that? You think 9-11 had to do with that? It is kind of sad that the postal service's workers think that way. Well, I guess that's because of the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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