Postage went up .... AGIAIN

[Ohio Rusty]

Just last week I mailed out 4 priority mail packages all for $8.40 each. Today I mailed out a small flat rate box and the postage was $9.20 ... an 80 cent increase in one week. It is almost getting to expensive to mail anything out. No one wants to pay that high postage.
Ohio Rusty ><>

[smithnframe]

9.20 to deliver a package from OH to ID in 2 days! Pretty reasonable in my opinion!

[Minerat]

The holiday bump.

[Ohio Rusty]

The post office told me they no longer guarantee the small flat rate boxes two days. They says now it may be as long as a full week. At the end of summer it was $7.40.

Ohio Rusty ><>

[Catshooter]

Still the lowest amongst the industrialized countries.

[0verkill]

Yeah, but with COVID/Mad Cow they've done more business than ever with all the internet orders. Seems to me like price gouging.

[Randy Bohannon]

I just got a package from MVA with “postage due $.95” they left the package in my mail box and I have no intention of paying them. USPS is the worst of all shippers in the world.

[marlin39a]

The increase occurred in early October. The local post office told me it was a temporary increase, until after the holidays. Surely, it will then increase again.

[StuBach]

Keep in mind what is happening with inflation too, the value of the dollar is dropping quickly.

There was a thread on here some time ago about how the USPS was not able to guarantee 2day on priority packages through the holidays due to the staffing issues and the excessive volume they were anticipating this year.

FWIW, USPS is still way cheaper and more convenient for everyone I know on here. Their rates have to adjust with the cost of doing business just like everyone else’s. They are a business that needs to be profitable and as the “real minimum wage” (whatever employers have to pay to get workers in the door) goes up so too will the cost of goods and services. When McDonalds has to pay $17/hr in a small rural town and over $20/hr in the city to get workers you know everyone’s paying more than they used to for labor, that cost gets passed onto the consumer so the business can stay profitable. Simple economics at work. I expect we’ll see more increases before we’re done.

[Plate plinker]

9.20 to deliver a package from OH to ID in 2 days! Pretty reasonable in my opinion!

Agree. I can’t drive it there myself for that price.

[bedbugbilly]

Your PO must be behind the times if you got the cheaper price a week ago. I have had to pay the higher price for a number of weeks - IIRC - it started back in October. I guess that their claim that the hike is just "temporary" for the holidays means it might even get there? No longer guaranteed 2 day Priority.

But . . . the difference of .80 and getting something from one end of the country to the other is still pretty reasonable IMHO.

The way things are so messed up now . . the cost of everything is going to keep climbing.

[blackthorn]

There are many holidays in the calendar year so,----which holiday are they referring to???

[Cosmic_Charlie]

I am constantly mailing packages for wifey to our granddaughter on the East Coast. It does cost a bit. But they always get there.

[bbogue1]

The price to mail a SFRB is now $9.20 since October 21. You can put two SFRB in one Padded Flat Rate Envelope. It is a bit tight, but, they will fit.The charge currently is $9.30

[shooterg]

Keep in mind what is happening with inflation too, the value of the dollar is dropping quickly.

There was a thread on here some time ago about how the USPS was not able to guarantee 2day on priority packages through the holidays due to the staffing issues and the excessive volume they were anticipating this year.

FWIW, USPS is still way cheaper and more convenient for everyone I know on here. Their rates have to adjust with the cost of doing business just like everyone else’s. They are a business that needs to be profitable and as the “real minimum wage” (whatever employers have to pay to get workers in the door) goes up so too will the cost of goods and services. When McDonalds has to pay $17/hr in a small rural town and over $20/hr in the city to get workers you know everyone’s paying more than they used to for labor, that cost gets passed onto the consumer so the business can stay profitable. Simple economics at work. I expect we’ll see more increases before we’re done.

PO here offering $19.06 hourly to deliver mail in their truck and can't get folks.