“Compare it to France at almost $3 and England at $2.50, and the longest distance those letters have to travel is about 600 miles smaller than the state of Texas,” he told lawmakers.
“We deliver from the tip of Puerto Rico to the tip of Alaska for 78 cents. That’s a distance of 5,000 miles.”
He said if the USPS increased first class stamp costs to 95 cents, it “would largely solve our controllable loss” while still remaining the lowest-priced stamp in the industrialized world.
I’d be willing to cough up a buck per mail if the USPS would charge more for junk mailers “bulk mail” rates. They use the system every day. Make them pay more first to make junk mail a thing of the past.
Then I would happily let the USPS catch up postage wise with the rest of the world.
Saving the environment? We’re in a new age now, the “get it while you can before anyone else does” era that is so brand new and not a rehash of the way the world used to work before workers revolted.
Corpo scum wanted us to save the environment. That was their good idea to distract us from the face that THEY are ruining the planet and there’s nothing you or I can do to offset their destruction.
Make them pay more first to make junk mail a thing of the past.
37% of USPS revenue was from junk mail. Idk if raising rates would make it go away, but I could at least see a world in which raising rates forced businesses to reevaluate its cost-effectiveness.
Unfortunately there is no bulk mail rate. Third class mail is lower cost because it is either: presorted (so it should ostensibly save the postal service on the labor to sort it), discounted for non-profit companies, or is “Every Door Direct Mail” (EDDM) which requires no sorting because it isn’t addressed. EDDM is also often if not usually sent straight to a post office via a third party so it never goes to a sorting plant. Third class mail also doesn’t receive the return service which all first class mail does.
The rate on it should be increased, but they do receive a lower level of service and sometimes save the postal service on the labor to deliver it.
I’d be willing to cough up a buck per mail if the USPS would charge more for junk mailers “bulk mail” rates. They use the system every day. Make them pay more first to make junk mail a thing of the past.
Then I would happily let the USPS catch up postage wise with the rest of the world.
Jack the cost of bulk mail to help both improve revenue and reduce waste.
Remember when saving the environment was a good idea?
Saving the environment? We’re in a new age now, the “get it while you can before anyone else does” era that is so brand new and not a rehash of the way the world used to work before workers revolted.
Corpo scum wanted us to save the environment. That was their good idea to distract us from the face that THEY are ruining the planet and there’s nothing you or I can do to offset their destruction.
37% of USPS revenue was from junk mail. Idk if raising rates would make it go away, but I could at least see a world in which raising rates forced businesses to reevaluate its cost-effectiveness.
The post office is kind of regulated like electric utilities - they’re not allowed to charge one customer more for the service to subsidize another.
In this case, junk mailers are presorted and sent shorter distances, so they’re cheaper to deliver.
Unfortunately there is no bulk mail rate. Third class mail is lower cost because it is either: presorted (so it should ostensibly save the postal service on the labor to sort it), discounted for non-profit companies, or is “Every Door Direct Mail” (EDDM) which requires no sorting because it isn’t addressed. EDDM is also often if not usually sent straight to a post office via a third party so it never goes to a sorting plant. Third class mail also doesn’t receive the return service which all first class mail does.
The rate on it should be increased, but they do receive a lower level of service and sometimes save the postal service on the labor to deliver it.