Sunday, May 18, 2014

USPS needs to be saved or our mailing costs will INCREASE.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/9-vilest-right-wing-moments-week-limbaugh-pits-himself-against-abducted-nigerian?page=0%2C2&akid=11819.294211.0oiXR8&rd=1&src=newsletter993757&t=3

For years, UPS and USPS have been sharing resources. USPS deliveries can be sent from some UPS Stores, but when that happens, the store can jack up the prices all it wants. In 2009, the New York Times compared the cost of sending USPS deliveries via privately owned UPS Stores versus sending them via government-operated post offices: an eight-pound package sent via USPS Priority Mail from a UPS Store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to Old Greenwich, CT, for example, cost  $21 as opposed to $8.80 from a post office across the street. That package cost $19.90 via UPS Ground. If the U.S. Postal Service is dismantled the way Rep. Darrell Issa (the California Republican who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee) and others want, that’s the type of price-gouging Americans can look forward to.

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