Another Heads Up from the business world with an article & warning...and good news?
The bad:
Rate HIKES incoming starting Oct 18 thru Dec 27 (to cramp on Christmas, no doubt)
The good:
They're TEMPORARY. They're going back to normal after Dec 27th.
What this means:
If you're planning Xmas mailings, do it before the Oct. 18th to avoid the hikes. Same thing if you're trying to sell lots on ebay to work up holiday dollars, best to do it before the hikes start scaring buyers away. Also, it's going to affect everybody, even Amazon, UPS and FedEx because they all use the USPS to 'last mile' stuff to rural folks and use it's other functions as well.
You can read more with this article, that lists out the percentages & talks more
https://www.mytotalretail.com/post/u-s-postal-service-announces-holiday-rate-increase/#ne=0065d23431c01fcbd798f468b360e9ac&utm_source=total-retail-report&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2020-08-22Can anything be done about it by normal people?
Yes, if you live in the US.
Use this website
https://5calls.org/issue/usps-postal-service-covid-funding To help you send emails, regular letters, and call political people in your state to influence them to:
#1 Stop DeJoy (man who is removing mail sorting machines)
#2 Stop the 2006 "postal pension prefunding act" (reason why usps in trouble now & doing this)
#3 Give it covid funding help like other big businesses got (because mail went up but workers went down b/c virus)
If anybody contacts any of these government guys, it MUST be recorded what you sent them/what you said, even if you only get a call center or you 'think they threw the letter out' ---they are not allowed. So if anyone does anything it gets recorded & the more people who do it the better it is. Changes are already happening in one state people screamed the house down so they plugged back in the mail sorter machine and pushed DeJoy down....but only because enough people yelled.
If you hate calling you can use this
https://action.foe.org/page/21776/action/1?ea.tracking.id=Email&ea.url.id=565750&forwarded=trueSenator makes over 3000 dollars per week, so they can receive a pre-written (but alterable) email from you with that form & it must be recorded.