It's Official: USPS to Raise Rates Again in July

by: Rogue

🤨DeJoy’s financial disclosure forms show that the postmaster general had at least $30 to $75 million invested in XPO, a shipping logistics company that contracts with USPS and, critics have noted, could potentially financially benefit if USPS were to be privatized.
🤑$386 million. That’s the amount that XPO has been paid by the U.S. Postal Service since 2014
🤔DeJoy’s financial portfolio that could be problematic, including reported stock options in Amazon and 13 other shipping companys

SO OF COURSE THEYL TRY RAISING THE SHIPPING COSTS AS MUCH & AS OFTEN AS THEY CAN‼️

by: Chicago48

Hello Temu.  I just received a $52 order from Temu (Chinese Amazon) and they charged NO shipping.  TEMU is taking over a lot of the market from AMZ and WM because of  fees.   Plus FREE returns.
IMO my slowing sales is due to the high shipping rates and fees.  When the customer goes to checkout the amount has doubled, so they backoff.  I do the same thing when I see high shipping rates.

by: Mark4

USPS has already priced themselves out of the market, we haven't shipped one priority mail package in 9 months, all have been less expensive (and better service) with UPS> As it stands right now we have 5 USPS packages sitting for over a week in the Lehigh Valley Sorting Center as that sorting center is a complete disaster. USPS = higher rates and worse service.  

by: Whatever

so my first class package of 4 oz will be going up 3 cents?

by: terry55

@whatever
I charge $4.50 for 1st class 4 oz, so my rate will go up $.27 and my 15oz boxes will go up $.47 at the 6% rate increase, plus ebay's shipping fee. Doesn't sound like alot but then multiply that by 300-500 packages a month

by: iheartjacksparrow

@Marie - Maybe I didn't do a good job of explaining myself. When the January 2022 increase went into effect, I charged $4.60 to mail an eight-ounce First Class Mail Package. When the October 2022 "holiday" pricing began, I had to charge $5.00 for the same service. And then when the January 2023 increase began, I lowered the price of the same service to $4.90. I'm just trying to point out that for me, the January 2022 versus January 2023 change was less than the January 2022 versus October 2022 change.

by: Topaz

I believe in the future we will be dropping off our packages to stores called Ship with Amazon. The infrastructure is there. I'm now receiving Amazon purchased items delivered the same day only hours after placing an order. Etsy and eBay may be sales competition to Amazon, but there's money to be made in moving packages.

by: Marie

@Jack

As far as I'm concerned you explained it fine.  Or at least I understood you.  But what I said earlier still stands.  In 2022 we experienced 3 rate increases.  January, July and October.  We all had to deal with them as they rolled out.  They all represented increases to the cost of shipping in 2022 and had to be dealt with.

Moving onto the next year, if the January 2023 rate changes allowed you to decrease what you charge to your buyers is terrific, but there were still more increases in that rate change, so it will depend on what method of shipment you are using within USPS.

I think it is great that you were able to reduce your rates coming into 2023.  The same is just not true for many of us, but again it is terrific that it worked out that way for you and likely others.

by: Working It

Other then First Class packages, I've been shipping using UPS Ground for almost all packages for a couple of years now. The only items I've sent Priority Mail have been those that fit into the Small Flat Rate box, or the Padded Flat Rate Envelope. I had one Priority package that went back and forth between distribution facilities for nearly 2 weeks, while my customer was anxious to get their product. That has never happened with UPS (knock wood).  
Depending on how this new ''USPS Ground Advantage'' is priced and organized, there may be even more business going to UPS, or FedEx.

Unfortunately, I also had to stop shipping those items to AK, HI and APO addresses, but I rarely sold to those locations, anyway.  

by: iheartjacksparrow

@Marie - The July 2022 increase was only related to First Class Stamps, flats, metered mail, First Class International, Media Mail, and some services like certified mail. I would think that the majority of online sellers would not have been affected by the July 2022 increase since it didn't change First Class Package or Priority Mail rates. I know I didn't adjust any of my shipping amounts last July.

by: Working It

I think Media Mail has been hit with all of the increases. It seems that it's about 60% higher than it was 3 years ago, or maybe 4 years ago.  

by: Marie

@Jack

All important methods that many sellers use.  So to downplay their importance really isn't fair to many sellers.

As I've said both of my other posts, I'm glad you weren't hit hard.  I think that is terrific and I'm sincere about that.  However that does not mean I dismiss all the sellers that didn't now weather the increases so well.

by: Snapped

“… in the future we will be dropping off our packages to stores called Ship with Amazon. ”

Not likely.  Almost 25% or USPS domestic package delivery are Amazon parcels.  And nearly 40% of UPS parcels they delivery are UPS.

Neither of these entities has anywhere near the infrastructure or ability to cost effectively deliver that volume themselves.  And then of course, they ONLY deliver packages.  

by: BatmanOfOz

WHAT A RACKET!  A Government entity that TAKES Billions from US to Exist...then Charges Us for its Horrible Service!!
I no longer sell on ebay...all of my bills are paid online. I have a roll of 'forever' stamps for the occasional card or letter.
A shame that all of my stock is now boxed up and no longer available to the world...but the loss in money (and the joy I Once had in Sharing my time in The Biz with the world!) is worth my Sanity!

by: Real Patriot?

The handpicked postmaster LaJoy is right on schedule to privatize the USPS by ruining it. What's next, selling the Lincoln Memorial to Putin's russia?