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...just me, or is the Postal Service starting to sound a lot like a pathetic, perpetually unemployed uncle who shows up at family gatherings for the sole purpose of panhandling his relatives...
...That?s right - it?s time, once again, for yet another rate increase from the U.S. Postal Service. Just four short months after hiking up the cost of a first-class stamp, the financial wizards over at the soon-to-be-vacated Postmaster General?s office have discovered that, whoops, that one-cent increase isn?t going to keep them from confronting $2 billion in losses...
...siree. On Tuesday, in a move blamed in part to the growing presence of email, the postal Board of Governors announced a one-cent increase in the price of postcard stamps and a two-cent increase in the amount we pay for the second ounce of mail. In other words, you can keep your 34?cent stamps. But when you mail something heavy, you?ll be charged 23 cents, rather than 21 cents, for each additional ounce. We can all look forward to paying these new rates sometime in July, or a month and a half after the current Postmaster...
...just raise the price of a first-class stamp to 35 cents, or even 36 cents, and then let us all get on with our lives for a couple of years? Yes, of course it would. But before you go expecting something as exotic as rational behavior from the postal service, you have to remember we?re talking about a massive government bureaucracy, in which estimates of profit margins can take months, even years, to travel up the chain of command. And when information finally reaches the top of that chain, it is often met by befuddled managers. Take...
...million Amount lost by the U.S. Postal Service in the past fiscal year...