Article

2025-04-12 Economy

USPS To Hike Stamp Prices By About 7.4% To 78 Cents Effective This Summer

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-04-12 00:23|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 I'll be glad when no federal money is involved with sending me stuff I don't even bother to open. I get my money by physical checks and bank wires. I pay my bills online. I don't *need* physical mail delivery.

Posted by Crusader 2025-04-12 02:06|| 2025-04-12 02:06|| Front Page Top

#2

It seems, even Government run agencies admit the inflation rate is a lot higher in past years than the 2.8% COLA given.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-12 05:12|| 2025-04-12 05:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Checking the silver market, it appears the old silver dime is worth about $2.33. Got to take the perspective, is that our money is worth less thanks to all the artificial money creation by the government (aka magic money tree).

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-12 07:00|| 2025-04-12 07:00|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Could be a good measure of inflation. A good Mercury could be worth much more than $2.33.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-04-12 07:12|| 2025-04-12 07:12|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Cold comfort, but we still have IIRC the lowest postage in the world and still have surprisingly fast and reliable delivery.

Not that it matters; I need the USPS maybe once a year anymore.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-04-12 07:40|| 2025-04-12 07:40|| Front Page Top

#6 About the only thing forever are postage rate hikes and billions in deficits. What a way to run a railroad. Oh, wait....

But Mike is right. The USPS is still relatively cheap. Within the EU, an intra-EU letter is just as international postage wise as sending a letter to the USA or Japan.

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-04-12 08:31|| 2025-04-12 08:31|| Front Page Top

#7 No where else in the world can you send a letter across the continent in 2-3 days for less than a dollar.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-04-12 10:02|| 2025-04-12 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 #7^
2 or 3 days
I wish.
I still have a certifed letter I sent out with a sizeable check 56 days ago to Atlanta (156 miles)
Yet to reach to the address.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-12 13:08|| 2025-04-12 13:08|| Front Page Top

#9 If it is certified, NN2N1, can you track it online? It probably fell behind a counter somewhere.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-12 13:11|| 2025-04-12 13:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Been to the USPS HQ for here.
Filed for INTERNAL tracking after 15 days.
Filed a COMPLAINT after 30 days.
ZERO UPDATES SINCE.
Out $11.50+ mail fee.
Looking at a $35 fee for stop check next.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-12 13:26|| 2025-04-12 13:26|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 TW I got a Christmas card 2 weeks ago.

Atlanta’s new sorting center is a mess

How Georgia’s mail-delivery system sank to the nation’s worst—and what’s coming next

Posted by Beavis 2025-04-12 13:35|| 2025-04-12 13:35|| Front Page Top

#12 My example of USOS Service.

....
USPS in possession of item 02/13/2025 11:40am AUGUSTA GA 30906
------
Nothing after mailing it.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-12 13:37|| 2025-04-12 13:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Well it raises the question is the USPS using a 🤔DEI verison of A.I.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-12 14:01|| 2025-04-12 14:01|| Front Page Top

#14 I pay all my bills by check and cash to try and avoid any form of online banking or credit card fraud. The mail between Norther Nevada and the East Coast takes 8-12 days in most cases. Relatively cheap in comparison to other countries isn't impressive when it is slow and unreliable.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-04-12 14:03|| 2025-04-12 14:03|| Front Page Top

#15 Thank you all for explaining. We can only hope President Trump’s guy will be able to improve things there.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-12 14:44|| 2025-04-12 14:44|| Front Page Top

#16 If it is only certified, it is only recorded at the drop off before going into the same gray mail sack as general mail. It is then recorded when the grey mail sack is opened, usually at destination, if they're paying attention. If it is registered, it has to be recorded at each exchange of the item and is in a different color mail bag that is tracked as well.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-12 16:50|| 2025-04-12 16:50|| Front Page Top

23:06 KBK
20:44 DarthVader
18:46 Mercutio
17:28 ed in texas
16:54 Procopius2k
16:50 Procopius2k
16:45 Procopius2k
14:47 swksvolFF
14:46 trailing wife
14:44 trailing wife
14:39 trailing wife
14:30 swksvolFF
14:25 NoMoreBS
14:03 NoMoreBS
14:01 NN2N1
13:53 NoMoreBS
13:37 NN2N1
13:35 Beavis
13:32 NN2N1
13:26 NN2N1
13:20 DooDahMan
13:11 trailing wife
13:08 NN2N1
12:22 trailing wife