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For me ( I ship BIG Damn Boxes), keeping up with these squirrely postal rates is as simple as charging a high price for postage, and returning the difference in postal money order refund in the box.
People LOVE it. We’re all little kids at heart and love getting real money back.
Works like a charm :o)
I have an excellent reputation……
The only price increase I worry about is for First Class Packages, which is how the majority of my items ship. Thankfully, FCPs don’t seem to be impacted by this change. I would like to know how DeJoy is able to get approval for two price increases in one year
they already slowed down first class mail (letter). postmarked May 3rd, delivered May 24th
If I could find another service for First Class! Too bad we can’t get China’s USPS rate.
““Also Friday, the agency sent out “reduction in force,” or layoff, notices to hundreds of management-level employees.”
Now weed out some carriers. I get different temps because my regular got injured. I have an average of 7 mostly 1st class packages per day. I don’t fill out that scheduled pickup sheet they can scan because it isn’t practical with 3 accounts and sales that often happen just before the mailman comes. Also I don’t do a scheduled pickup at all any more because one of the temps I was getting told me he didn’t have to scan each package: only the one sheet that I was supposed to compile. But I asked him if a customer put up their red flag and had a package in the box would he scan it, and he said yes. So I’ve been doing it that way, with a note in the box that the packages were in a bag at the side door, since a busy sidewalk of literbugs pass by my mail box daily.
Saturday I was leaving at 1:30 PM and my packages were still there so I took them to head to the Post Office when I saw a mail truck parked on my route. So I stopped and waited. A young Millenial lady arrived who I have never seen before and I asked if she would take my stuff. She did and commented (recognized my car?) that she didn’t pick them up because she didn’t have any mail for me and I hadn’t scheduled a pickup. I asked her what about the red flag being up and the note inside that the packages were around the corner of the house? She said she didn’t look (she had to walk right by it) because she didn’t have to. Of course she never scanned them. Being a Saturday, I won’t get penalized by ebay as that isn’t a ‘working day’.
What do they make an hour to start? Pretty high isn’t it, compared to other jobs where the only skills you need are to be able to read, drive a car, and walk a few miles a day.
A typical example of that old saying, “Good enough for government work.”