Am I the only one who thinks that the Post office raising the price of stamps while spending millions?

to sponsor cycling teams and on advertising is just plain nuts? They claim they are losing money, but look how much they advertise. They paid lance Armstrong $1M a year for 4 years as part of sponsoring the US Postal team at the Tour De France. So should I have to pay more for stamps for them to waste the money on advertising? I mean, who does not know about the post office? How would advetising world wide benefit them? Can you find a US post office in Russia? Or China? How about North Korea, Iran, Iraq or Egypt? Maybe we have one in Africa?





I don't think so. So why are we getting this line of BS that they are losing money? The are spending on advertising, they sell our addresses everyday to solicitors, they charge people who send junk mail less than they charge us for 1 oz first class letter. They take no care of your item that you ship. Your lucky if it gets there because one of the x con employees doesnt decide to take it home with them. The service sucks.

Am I the only one who thinks that the Post office raising the price of stamps while spending millions?
Talk about 'going postal', your responses on this subject are just that. I think we all get it that you really don't like the post office...so how about this...just don't use them and the rest of the people who want to simply will.


Glad you found a place to vent because you really seem to need to...
Reply:The USPS is big business just as Coke and Pepsi. Just because the words "United States and Service" are attached doesn't mean you are owed anything beyond what .39 pays for. All big businesses advertise with celebrity and sport icons. With the internet capabilities growing as rapidly as they are to stay in business the USPS, as I see it, must raise prices to remain a service to those who do not have internet access. I for one could not do their job. Have you seen the carriers' bags they must carry on their backs, whether it be hot or below freezing? It's a job in which they do earn their pay. You also sell your own address everyday by entering contests and sweeps. As far as "x con" employees? They're everywhere. Quit using the postal service if it's that much of an issue for you. I will continue buying my stamps, at .39 or 1.00. It's well worth it.
Reply:OF COURSE YOU ARE 100% CORRECT!! "Who doesn't know about the postal service?" That's funny and so absurdly true.
Reply:I couldn't agree more!!!
Reply:Actually the postal service offers the cheapest rates to send mail in the WORLD... so you hve to think about how good you have it there plus there are totally self sufficent...no tax dollars all there money comes from the cost of using them so if i'd suggest you look at the bright side or jut pay all your bills online then you don't hve to worry about the little stamp
Reply:That is great!! I am usually annoyed by people's rants and raves but yours is totally valid and worth raving about.





Thanks!
Reply:I'd be willing to bet that an ex-con could'nt get a job with the PO. If you have a felony conviction on your record forget it. It seems like all you can post about is negatives about the PO, you didn't get a job with them or something. And we don't sell anybodys address to anyone, the people that you buy things from do that to you. Or the ones whos magz you subscribe to do, but not us. You work in construction, chances are you couldn't pass the test required to get a PO job. And we don't sponsor any bike teams anymore either.
Reply:Less and less people using po, whereas in past everyone used it. They need extra money to make up for loss of volume to cover budget. The bigger and bigger fed ex and ups get the higher rates will go.
Reply:I agree with you. I think EBAY really boosted their income. Sure they've lost a lot to email, but think about all the EBAYers out there! I can see them advertising to promote a new service, such as click %26amp; ship, but ordinary advertising and sponsoring is just nuts.
Reply:Just another example of the government sticking it to us every chance it gets!!

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