Comments on: USA Postage Rate Chart

By: the_duck

the_duck — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:38:37 +0000

This is so rad. Not only do we have a repost, but it’s a repost of my own post of a graph that I personally made using Microsoft Excel myself with data I found researching the prices of stamps the last time they went up for the purposes of posting on MCS. Rad.

By: flex

flex — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:49:47 +0000

Well done, you’re absolutely right. I can’t believe so many posts were made before anyone picked up on this.

By: GrandAdmiralThrawn

GrandAdmiralThrawn — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:22:02 +0000

Bicoid; bite me, they are charging to much. The sad fact is they need to fire ever dumb SOB that works for the postal service south of the Mansion-Dioxin, and import people from the north. Would save USPS millions.

I can get a letter in IRAQ, from home, faster then I could in MS or LA. I’ve also not had a letter/package get lost. Can not say that about Mississippi.

Had a long talk with my Post Master about it. She routinely has problems with things sent down south…once you leave the Eastern Seaboard (read deep south). Everything goes to hell.

By: Bicoid

Bicoid — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:26:50 +0000

Wikipedia holds the answer. Interestingly, when adjusted for inflation, the price is about the same as it was 130 years ago.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Postage_History.svg

By: Bicoid

Bicoid — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:23:35 +0000

Chart should be adjusted for inflation.

By: Sticky

Sticky — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:01:21 +0000

Zasz got it first.

By: nyokki

nyokki — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:05:55 +0000

To a point. The whole machinery of the postal system was built to handle huge amounts of mail, they need that for the system to work properly and pay for itself. Once your ‘load’ goes below a certain point, you’re stuck using all the machinery and a minimum number of employees, but it will cost more than it brings in.

By: tiki god

tiki god — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:27:11 +0000

I’m pretty sure that it’s the other way around. All those fliers are helping pay for my grandmother to send me a letter from the other side of the country for only $0.44.

By: Tyger42

Tyger42 — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:34:39 +0000

Less use = less load. Problem is that the discount bulk rate is seeing far more use than the normal rate these days. Guess it wouldn’t make sense to up the bulk rate….wait, no, that makes perfect sense.

By: Vrik

Vrik — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:17:57 +0000

HORDE -> HOARD