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Tansy_Gold

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10. It's the packages

Reply to Demeter (Reply #2)

Thu May 30, 2013, 01:44 AM

May 2013

The postal service has been privatized by shifting the profitable small package and overnight shipping to UPS, FEDEX, etc. And then they piggyback off each other and the stockholders get a cut. Uncle Sam is just the sugar daddy.

I probably use 50-60 actual stamps a year, but I do all my small business shipping via USPS. It's lots cheaper, I can go into the post office and use the automated kiosk 24/7, and I'm not giving anything to the very friendly rip-off artist at the UPS store who was actually going to charge me a $5.00 fee just for weighing an envelope. "If I put it on the scale I'm going to print the postage for it, and there's a $5.00 fee." Uh, no, not gonna happen.

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