7 Things You're Paying More Money For

gonepostalgirl

Yes, postage went up. Unlike their competitors, the USPS can't increase their prices or add fuel surcharges whenever they want. The USPS had many years of zero or one cent price increase over the last 20 years. While rates have increased a few cents the last several years, given this country's fuel prices during that time frame, I believe it's one of the best deals in the country to be able to get a first class letter from one side of the country to the other in a few days. The USPS handles approx. 46% of the WORLD'S card\letter volume, delivering to over 149 million addresses six days a week, processing 203 billion pieces in 2008 alone - that's an avg of 667 millions pieces of mail per hour! The USPS drove over 1.2 billion miles in '08 in a fleet of 221,000 vehicles, of which 43,000 are "clean fuel" vehicles to get your important mail delivered to it's destination. No other mail or package service in the world can compete. Fourteen percent of the US population moves annually, su...(Read more of this comment)bmitting 46 million change of address forms; their first class mail and packages are forwarded free of charge. The USPS employs over 656,000 career employees who actively participate in community events, blood drives, food drives, fund raisers, charitable donations, scam alerts - to date, USPS inspectors stopped 800,000 fake checks totaling nearly 2.7 billion from coming into the country. With the USPS Have You Seen Me campaing, 148 missing children have been found. All for the price of a first class stamp.(Show less of this comment)

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CashnsaveCeo

There's far more then 7 things we all paying more for! But the fact is, businesses even in a huge economy down fall still haven't figured out the #1 problem of fixing it all! It seems going out of business is much easier then redoing there prices to a much more fair and honest pricings from products to services! Crippled economy, and yet products and services pricings just keep going up! Consumers have had enough of being ripped off, the economy is just going to be crippled until businesses realizes, that demand, doesn't mean skyrocket there prices! Period. DEMAND for a Product or service you offer means you will stay in business much longer by providing the products and services, without all the price hikes because of any huge demand! But as you business owners can see, running your business on greed, is Only heading you to the Big Out of Business! Wake up businesses, you don't have much time left to save your businesses from Out of Business. Consumers have had enough, and to do nothi...(Read more of this comment)ng, well bye bye! Like so many businesses have already bellied up!Dump the high buck prices, Hire more employees, the big freight train of business is on it's way! And the economy will be back and healthy again!Kick GREED out of your Business practice today and Tomorrow will be a whole new promising day! Your emloyees you laid off, didn't cause this huge problem, you did when you invited GREED into your Business, plain and simple! Wake up and save your Business, before it's too late!(Show less of this comment)