Comments on: USPS to Raise Rates Twice a Year https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/ Ecommerce Industry News Mon, 20 Sep 2021 01:46:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: MindElec https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/#comment-6628 Mon, 20 Sep 2021 01:46:01 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=226334#comment-6628 well now they are being obvious about what i have suspected was happening. their endgame is to price media mail out of existence, to make it so close to priority mail that the savings is minimal and people just pay for priority.

makes sense they have destroyed first class international as a shipping method, now it’s time to destroy the value based domestic ones

]]> By: RKTOYS https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/#comment-6623 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 20:03:46 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=226334#comment-6623 In reply to Stoned11.

Try to get a job with the post office. They’re advertising right now, like every other business crying about a labor shortage. Except…it’s all part-time/seasonal work paying about $2 more than Target and McDonalds are offering. Typical globalist anti-labor big business management at work.

]]> By: fusgeyer https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/#comment-6621 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:00:35 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=226334#comment-6621 I ship a lot of items via first class mail. Mostly postcards, small art prints, and sewing patterns. Looks like customers will have to shell out more money. I cannot eat every increase in fees. Unfortunately, USPS has you over a barrel for small items that ship first class mail. To use any other carrier is cost prohibitive unless you send everything overnight and charge accordingly.

]]> By: Stoned11 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/#comment-6620 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:04:25 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=226334#comment-6620 In reply to MsM.

For many years, USPS has been in deficit due to having to pay out expensive retirement plans for postal employees. This information was around for many years and well before Trump appointed DeJoy.

]]> By: Stoned11 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/#comment-6619 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:59:50 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=226334#comment-6619 In reply to The End.

I do. I’m a jeweler with a good repeat customer base and my new pieces sell on Etsy in a matter of minutes, upon posting. I raise my prices due to ‘demand” and they continue to sell. And let’s not forget about inflation. If sellers cannot raise prices annually, then the seller is really falling behind due to annual inflation that hits all of us. In other words, $10 bucks today will be worth less tomorrow.

]]> By: Stoned11 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/#comment-6618 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:54:08 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=226334#comment-6618 I’m not surprised. Because how long can the Postal Service deliver cheap “first class” mail given the price and effort it takes to make a delivery. Think about it…someone who spends only $3.00 to deliver a greeting card is paying for the price of cross-country flights and efforts by multiple postal workers who make livable wages including the price of healthcare. And this is why paying bills online is now so important. Inflation will either eliminate First Class, all together, or prices will have to double.

]]> By: Stoned11 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/#comment-6617 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:45:16 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=226334#comment-6617 In reply to MimikyuILoveYou.

So you really think AMZ won’t deliver mail for a profit? AMZ will raise rates because they don’t have tax dollar to subsidize their business.

]]> By: MsM https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/#comment-6616 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:29:44 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=226334#comment-6616 USPS have been trying to catch some of the online sales money for years. They are SUPPOSED to be non profit, but a Trump appointee couldn’t let THAT happen.

]]> By: tsme35 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/#comment-6612 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:49:21 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=226334#comment-6612 Pricing small sellers right out of business, I’m only selling half the inventory I sold 4 years ago, rate increases twice a year now, just gonna wipe out the other half.

]]> By: Chicago48 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/09/15/usps-to-raise-rates-twice-a-year/#comment-6611 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:11:35 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=226334#comment-6611 There’s always bulk purchasing to beat the price increase. People forget that 1st class mail is “forever” mail.

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