All the senators and representatives get to mail all there stuff for free, we the taxpayer get to pay there postage. and pay there health care, there kids collage loans, and they retire on full pay after serving only one term, when Obuma took office our price for a gallon of gas was $ 1.75 per gallon, who ya going to vote out of office next election ALL OF THEM !!!
Congress should remove the Postal Service’s legal monopoly on first-class mail, end the under-the-table subsidies they still receive from the Treasury, and let them sink or swim like any other company.
As for the Constitutional requirement to have a postal service, that can be a window at the back of the Capitol building selling commemorative stamps to tourists and collectors, which is how the U.N. and the Vatican do it.
Congress is actually to blame for the Post Office’s financial problems. The 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) requires employees to pay over $5 billion each year into a fund that will pay for future health benefits of retirees of the next 75 years. No other government or private corporation is required to do this. If not for this unreasonable requirement, the Post Office would actually be in the black.
Despite it all, it’s hard to find a better bargain. For a mere $0.45, you can have something taken off of your front porch, schlepped across the entire country, and placed in a box on somebody else’s front porch. Yeah, the internet’s free and delivers almost immediately, but the Post Office still offers a phenomenol deal.
If you look at the price of stamps adjusted for inflation, you would see that the cost (as opposed to the price) of postage has remained fairly steady for nearly forty years. In fact, it peaked in 1978 when a first class stamp with a face value of 15¢ has a 2012 invlation-adjusted cost of 49¢. In 1855, it cost 99¢ (in 2012 cents) to send a ½-ounce letter locally and $3.22 coast-to-coast.
The Postal Service hamstrings itself with regulations that make it impossible to keep up. They specialize in shooting themselves in the foot, and get no sympathy from me. They insist on every class of mail supporting itself. If they ran it like a business, made advertisers pay all the market would bear, they’d be in clover, and we’d have a lot less junk mail and a lot more trees. And they could handle our mail at the same subsidized price that begging letters from televangelists pay, while they’re at it.
Gigantor almost 12 years ago
Email your congressman.
revisages almost 12 years ago
check’s in the mail
ShadowBeast Premium Member almost 12 years ago
And that’s why they’re raising the postal rates.
stewartava almost 12 years ago
Your congressman may well want to shut down the post office.Many prefer just to sip tea instead of read your mail.
Everybody E mails their congressman Mr. Ziggy.Your’e adorable, but way out of date.
stewfull almost 12 years ago
All the senators and representatives get to mail all there stuff for free, we the taxpayer get to pay there postage. and pay there health care, there kids collage loans, and they retire on full pay after serving only one term, when Obuma took office our price for a gallon of gas was $ 1.75 per gallon, who ya going to vote out of office next election ALL OF THEM !!!
Jolly1995 almost 12 years ago
Congress are the thieves…….
jlpampel almost 12 years ago
Congress theme song “If I only had a brain”.
JRemakel1 almost 12 years ago
Thank You – e-mail!
konchster almost 12 years ago
Fedex it Zig that’s the alternative
pschearer Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Congress should remove the Postal Service’s legal monopoly on first-class mail, end the under-the-table subsidies they still receive from the Treasury, and let them sink or swim like any other company.
As for the Constitutional requirement to have a postal service, that can be a window at the back of the Capitol building selling commemorative stamps to tourists and collectors, which is how the U.N. and the Vatican do it.
fishbulb239 almost 12 years ago
Congress is actually to blame for the Post Office’s financial problems. The 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) requires employees to pay over $5 billion each year into a fund that will pay for future health benefits of retirees of the next 75 years. No other government or private corporation is required to do this. If not for this unreasonable requirement, the Post Office would actually be in the black.
Despite it all, it’s hard to find a better bargain. For a mere $0.45, you can have something taken off of your front porch, schlepped across the entire country, and placed in a box on somebody else’s front porch. Yeah, the internet’s free and delivers almost immediately, but the Post Office still offers a phenomenol deal.
joe vignone almost 12 years ago
Republicants won’t be happy until they have privatized every government function to make profit for the 1%.
REDROCKER51 almost 12 years ago
it just went up on Jan 1, 2012 !!!The U S government is like space…..in space…no one can hear you scream !!!!!!!!!!!!
Squirrelchaser almost 12 years ago
I’m not part of the 1% or 10%, but I agree with you completely. Entitlements are out of control.
runar almost 12 years ago
If you look at the price of stamps adjusted for inflation, you would see that the cost (as opposed to the price) of postage has remained fairly steady for nearly forty years. In fact, it peaked in 1978 when a first class stamp with a face value of 15¢ has a 2012 invlation-adjusted cost of 49¢. In 1855, it cost 99¢ (in 2012 cents) to send a ½-ounce letter locally and $3.22 coast-to-coast.
Pygar almost 12 years ago
The Postal Service hamstrings itself with regulations that make it impossible to keep up. They specialize in shooting themselves in the foot, and get no sympathy from me. They insist on every class of mail supporting itself. If they ran it like a business, made advertisers pay all the market would bear, they’d be in clover, and we’d have a lot less junk mail and a lot more trees. And they could handle our mail at the same subsidized price that begging letters from televangelists pay, while they’re at it.