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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on June 24, 2009, 02:54:41 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=403x2939
Oh my.
grasswire (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-23-09 06:53 PM
Original message
what the heck has happened to shipping costs??
I've jumped back into selling on eBay. Today I mailed out my first package. I had charged the buyer $4 for postage. It rang up at almost $16 for postage and delivery confirmation!
Shipping costs have apparently exploded in the last several years. Did they jump when oil was high and never go down again?
GAH!!!
Vinca (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-24-09 08:15 AM
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1. It's foolishly expensive now. I guess the fixed rate boxes are a good deal, but they're too small to fit much into. Even cards cost more to mail. I had a regular stamp on my brother's musical birthday card but decided to have them weigh it to be sure and it was 3 times as much based on being a little bit larger than a regular letter.
democraticinsurgent (864 posts) Wed Jun-24-09 09:26 AM
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2. The May postal hike was sneaky in some ways
Although the first class stamp went up by only 2 cents to 44 cents, the price of a small first class international package (a square, 5 oz package containing one 45 record) to most European countries went up from $4.80 to $5.64. Craziness and certainly not proportional in any way to the main increase.
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Methinks shipping at the post office is a pretty good bargain if you consider what it would involve if you actually had to deliver some of those packages yourself.
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Hm, the DUmmies are complaining about costs at the United States Post Office, a GOVERNMENT controlled operation?