Rising postage cost....What do you think?
@Texassulcatas (88)
United States
May 22, 2007 6:44pm CST
I have to send off some mail tomorrow and it got me thinking about the rising price of postage. I understand that the price is going up because people are using the internet more regularly to do things they used to do using the USPS. Isn't this kind of a cycle? They raise the price to compete with the net which would cause people to use the net more often, thus rising the price again. What do you think about the inflation cost? Will it cause you to send snail mail less often?
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@piasabird (1737)
• United States
23 May 07
I thought the same thing. Email is being used a lot now. I even pay some bills online. But, I guess they need to raise the rates to keep up with the cost of pay raises and fuel costs.
I sell items on ebay and I'm thinking that they should make it easier on us because we make a lot of money for them with mailing off packages and such. Pretty soon people aren't going to want to pay the expensive postage fees to buy things online. I'm just trying to make some extra money and the rising postal rates are hurting me.
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@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
26 May 07
let us just think that the people who are running the postal services office need something to by too. they are also affected by inflation and everything that has been going on globally. the increased rates maybe hurting, but we are in turn making others have their needed share of the pie, anyway.
@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
26 May 07
the regular mails have so much less clients these days. even during the peak periods of december until the new year, that has been gone, too. it is understandable that they have to raise the rates. they have the same offices to maintain for the little income now coming in. in fact, i had been wondering they had not cut drastically on their personnel. i believe that they will be considering maintaining a skeleton force to keep their operations going sometime from now. then that will make the postage costs stabilize.
