USPS New Rates for 2006. Going up up up!!

star-phoenix · Post by **star-phoenix** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:16 pm

Wow, the new rates from USPS has just been posted for 2006.
Priority Mail is now $4.05 for 1 lb fixed instead of $3.85.

http://pe.usps.com/2006rate/ratesandfees.htm

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:00 pm

Well, at least I have the rest of this week to get those bills out in the mail before the stamps go up.

And I think I'm going to just switch to the flat rate boxes. Since I don't have a scale and suck at guessing the weight, I figure it'll just be easier for me.

kymaera · Post by **kymaera** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:09 pm

Hmm...

Bad: Postage goes up which sucks

Good: At least this should motivate me to get my lazy butt to the post office
to mail the packages I've had sitting around for a few days.

klet · Post by **klet** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:18 pm

kymaera wrote:Good: At least this should motivate me to get my lazy butt to the post office
to mail the packages I've had sitting around for a few days.

I'm writing you an email right now, so read it before you get off your lazy butt and go to the post office, okay?

kymaera · Post by **kymaera** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:22 pm

Silly klet...the postage rate on email isn't going up. There's no reason to
rush to get it sent out.

klet · Post by **klet** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:25 pm

kymaera wrote:Silly klet...the postage rate on email isn't going up. There's no reason to
rush to get it sent out.

You know what I mean.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:42 pm

I decided this weekend to call Hell Girl to help with those places that don't have online bill payment.

I'm not really happy at the notion of paying a buck for every couple of envelopes.

... especially since a first class stamp was five cents when I started mailing letters to people. Bah.

(where's that wheelchair emoticon anyway...)

Hey! I'll pay 'em that much if they will stop trying to give me AOL discs and if they buy enough people so I don't have to perform Anime-Expo type waits to pick up a package.

kira · Post by **kira** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:33 am

the site wont come up for me.

that sucks that rates are going up.

Baylor · Post by **Baylor** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:43 am

duotrouble wrote:And I think I'm going to just switch to the flat rate boxes. Since I don't have a scale and suck at guessing the weight, I figure it'll just be easier for me.

I've been thinking of doing the same. I have a scale now (Christmas present from the hubby... guess I've been doing a lot of shipping lately) but I'm rather lazy and it is just easier to use the flat rate. It leaves less room for "discussions" from bidders about the postage rate.