I have yet to do any USPS purchasing and mailing online....maybe I should start....unless it's too late.
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USPS Priority Price Increase
- Thread starter TommyZ
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it's not too late, just sign up with myusps and you're good to go
Craig Mac
BoM 4/10 7/11 12/14
"Effective Jan. 5, 2016, all tobacco products, including loose tobacco, cigars, smokeless tobacco, hookah tobacco and cigarettes, will be prohibited and the FedEx Express Terms & Conditions, FedEx Ground Tariff and FedEx Freight Tariff will be updated to reflect this prohibition."
Personally, I will no longer use FedEx for sending or receiving anything because of the new policy.
THEMISCHMAN
SGT Hulka
Inflation and operating costs most likely. The upside is the boxes are still free and if you use USPS.com you can print the shipping label.
but does the new price reflect if you print it at home? i know its like $5.25 printed at home and $5.95 at the post office before this went into effect
I tried this once. Got caught. Had to pay the difference.
Huh? I guess fedex doesn't like shipping super light packages for a lot of money.
Maybe trying to cover their asses with people bootlegging cigarettes.
Craig Mac
BoM 4/10 7/11 12/14
Yep, there were huge lawsuits in NY regarding cigarettes that set this in motion.
King Kill 33
BoM Dec '13
I use their Regional 'A' box for shipping all the time and use the 'Choose your own box' option. I have even used a MFR and clicked that option with no issue before.
The Regional A box are available online and they just drop em at your house. They are an in between size for their SFR and MFR boxes. Anything more than a fiver, goes in one of those. Hard to find online, so here's the link.
https://store.usps.com/store/browse/uspsProductDetailMultiSkuDropDown.jsp?categoryNav=false&navAction=push&navCount=1&atg.multisite.remap=false&categoryId=shipping-supplies&productId=P_RRB_A1
Also, Click n ship is the only way to go as well. So easy and cheap.
- KK33
The Regional A box are available online and they just drop em at your house. They are an in between size for their SFR and MFR boxes. Anything more than a fiver, goes in one of those. Hard to find online, so here's the link.
https://store.usps.com/store/browse/uspsProductDetailMultiSkuDropDown.jsp?categoryNav=false&navAction=push&navCount=1&atg.multisite.remap=false&categoryId=shipping-supplies&productId=P_RRB_A1
Also, Click n ship is the only way to go as well. So easy and cheap.
- KK33
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StogieNinja
Derek | BoM June 2014
Gross mismanagement, combined with outrageously expensive pension plans they can't afford to keep paying.
Bad News along with the price increase they are eliminating the regional rate, it will be charged regular priority rate. USPS was loosing a lot of money on those regional rate boxes, especially the B and C sizes
I saw this in a post from Pete Johnson on ig. They used to use fed ex exclusively for shipping and have switched over to ups at the end of last year.
King Kill 33
BoM Dec '13
Thanks. I was only talking about using the Regional box itself, and not the rate. But good to know. Are they eliminating the boxes too?
- KK33
bostoneo
The Chosen One
USPS is horribly mismanaged...
but.. their inability to make money isnt 100% their fault..
Our illustrious congress likes to use the "tax" money collected by stamps and postage to run other government businesses and programs...
then the post office borrows money from the treasury to be able to continue to operate.. which it cant pay back.. because congress continues to take money from the post office to run other programs.. which sends the USPS back to the treasury to borrow more money.. and it goes on, and on, and on...
Private companies like UPS and FedX could run our mail services much more efficiently, affordably, reliably, etc.. no doubt...
But if congress allowed the mail to go 100% private.. it would lose one of its piggy banks that it loves to dip into when it doesnt want to ask for more "budget money" from other funding pools.. (FedX and UPS would tell Senator Shitstain to get bent if he called them demanding money...)..
but.. their inability to make money isnt 100% their fault..
Our illustrious congress likes to use the "tax" money collected by stamps and postage to run other government businesses and programs...
then the post office borrows money from the treasury to be able to continue to operate.. which it cant pay back.. because congress continues to take money from the post office to run other programs.. which sends the USPS back to the treasury to borrow more money.. and it goes on, and on, and on...
Private companies like UPS and FedX could run our mail services much more efficiently, affordably, reliably, etc.. no doubt...
But if congress allowed the mail to go 100% private.. it would lose one of its piggy banks that it loves to dip into when it doesnt want to ask for more "budget money" from other funding pools.. (FedX and UPS would tell Senator Shitstain to get bent if he called them demanding money...)..
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Smoqman
BoM Aug. 2014
Soon enough the US Postal Service will be virtually out of business. There is simply no need for them, and the marketplace and Technology will bear this out, eventually.
It's $1 trillion cash cow, that should've been slaughtered long ago.
It's $1 trillion cash cow, that should've been slaughtered long ago.