Six-day Delivery Pointless if Mailers Can't Afford It

by: Mbrj201

DeJoy will ruin the USPS.

by: GetAGrip

They will soon be unimportant for mailing.   They keep raising prices and the service keeps going down.  What used to take 3 days now takes 5 days and has a great chance of being delivered to the wrong address.  As far as I'm concerned they could stop delivery to my house forever.  I get nothing but junk mail.  Everything I do is on line like a lot of people.  I check the mail box when I think of it and the only thing in there is junk letters asking for donations to their scams.

by: toolguy

A thing called "capitalism" will work everything out.

If shipping gets too expensive buyers will return to brick & mortar.

by: The End

I SAID :
Looks like they've found a way to hobble America.
That's what this is.
Right in front of our eyes.

by: The End

toolguy is absolutely correct.
Right 'Round 360 degrees.
Where I live, stores have been empty for so long they need to be torn down and replaced.
It's a graveyard of empty malls and strip malls.
It's all busy 6 lane highways with commercial graveyards as far as the eye can see....
Stores will have to be built on the outskirts of residential areas...then the kids can walk to work.....their learning curve will be tremendous....

by: iheartjacksparrow

Online selling is keeping the USPS afloat, and that's the very segment that DeJoy wants to price out of business.  

by: terry55

WOW, this idiot just doesn't get it. Raising postage rates WILL NOT increase revenue. The higher it goes the less they get, my mail lady is already running 2 hrs earlier now because less packages.
Easy example which domestic packages will follow is international rates, 10 yrs ago I sold all over the world, almost every country, 1st class rates were around $3. International rate doubled to $6, a year or 2 later jumped to $12 for 4 oz and $18 for 8 oz. My international sales dropped 90%, I got alot of angry message about doubling my shipping which I let them know I had no choice.
 I ended international sales back in 2018, wasn't selling enough to cover any lost packages. This will happen with my items now, cost more to ship then the what a person can buy at the store, I've already sell half what I did 5 years ago.
I did ask my mail lady about going to 5 days a week, if it would be easier on her. She answered no, because Mondays would be a nightmare, she'd have Friday, Saturday and Sundays mail to deliver on Monday.
USPS is already losing a bunch of packages because of outrageous surcharges and amazon now doing more of their own deliveries.  

by: the decline of civilization

The US Government punishes small business instead of enabling them. USPS is destroying American small business and placing the average citizen further into debt. Running one's own business should be encouraged and not left to the rich. Again, it's wage slavery at its finest. The USPS keeps proclaiming their deliveries are quicker yet fail to mention their mailpiece throughput has drastically declined, partially due to their exorbitant price changes. Of course your delivers are faster (no, they really aren't) when you're sending less mail. Doesn't take a rocket scientist.

I don't know enough about the workings of the USPS Board of Governors and the processes, but removing DeJoy should've been prioritized and the proper people ousted in order to replace him. The fact he's allowed to continue especially after the fascist antics of removing mail sorting equipment shortly before the election leaves me with no hope for this country. At this point all "parties" are complicit in these actions because nobody is doing anything about it.

All this rambling aside, eBay, Mercari, Etsy and so on should be very concerned. WIth their plummeting customer bases (and stocks at an alltime low) this is only going to make matters worse. Their days are very numbered. Fact is, they're not concerned. eBay keeps implementing horrible design decisions (UI/UX and algorithmic wise) which are only hindering their services to buyers and sellers. It's the perfect storm and the ship is sinking,

by: Plain1

The postal service was created as a service to the citizens and was subsidized, never meant to be a for profit endeavor. It never should have been taken away from congress. It should have stayed where it was and been subsidized by the federal government.
I remember when shipping overseas was not that expensive at all, now it's crazy.

by: Bubbles

The same thing is happening in Australia.......

by: Chicago48

I sell on AMZ and recently the UPS rates are about half the USPS rates, including the first class mail.  I don't know what AMZ did to get those rates, but other platforms need to do it.

by: JohnGermaine

DeJoy totally get it - he's invested in a competing business (XPO Logistics) and was hired to take the USPS down. He should never been hired in the first place and he knows that.  As in all others placed in jobs by "the previous guy" he was another sent to destroy.  Why he is still there is a mystery to all of us.  Rates need to be slashed in half - at least - since the mandate was lifted.

by: billly

The lasting affect of voting grifter ''businessmen'' into office because you think they serve as role models who actually give a rats a** about the citizens they are tasked to represent. The smoke and mirrors that comprise the real inner workings of the US government become more apparent with each passing day. ''Great Again'' is the gift that keeps on giving.

by: Sierra

@Mbrj201 - DeJoy HAS ruined the USPS!

@toolguy - If buyers return to brick & mortar stores, that will really suck for millions of online sellers! E-commerce is such a big business that USPS shouldn't be allowed to ruin it!

@terry55 - That was my experience too. I've been selling online since 1998 however, when USPS international rates took off like a rocket, my international sales fell like the proverbial lead balloon. :-( I didn't receive angry messages about rate increases though, international shoppers simply stopped buying. There was a time when I could ship to Canada (First Class International, or whatever it was called at the time) for less than I could send the same item to the U.S. East Coast via Priority Mail (these packages were over 1 pound so HAD to ship Priority in the U.S., but could ship First Class International because that weight limit was 4 pounds at the time!).

@the decline of civilization - I thought the proper people HAVE been appointed to the PRC who would be able to get DeJoy's azz out of there??? If this is correct, WTF is taking so long???
https://www.prc.gov/leadership ... looks like 3 to 2 so they should be able to get the job done! Also, re: eBay design, etc. I haaaate the new listing format. I tried it and immediately went back! I've given eBay feedback about it several times. I especially love the CURRENT image editor, which wasn't the same in the new format. GRRR!!!!

by: NYSteve

'a thing called capitalism' will work things out'

rotfl, if not crying, oh, so that explains the income 'equality' in this country, too

by: NYSteve

@Mbrj201 - that is EXACTLY what he is there for, then the whole populace will deal directly with his delivery service , XPO logistics.

does that make any sense? then why hasnt anyone put a stop to that yet?

CONFLICT OF INTEREST- send the guy packing!

by: mazelgirl

I just wrote to the White House after reading this.  President Biden is supposed to be appointing people to some postal commission who can delete DeJoy.  Not sure if writing will help but at least I feel I did something https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/write-or-call/

by: NYSteve

@mazelgirl

current update- the dems have a majority on that commission, now, but the 'D' chairmen is enamored (aka F'en blind dupe) with Duh Joy

by: Shanna

The lasting affect of voting grifter ''career politician'' into office because you think they serve as role models who actually give a rats a** about the citizens they are tasked to represent. The smoke and mirrors that comprise the real inner workings of the US government become more apparent with each passing day. Remember, 10% for the Big Guy.

by: NYSteve

De  Joy is a direct product of pols trying to privatize gov't agencies in the guise of 'you know you hate red tape and govt inefficiency', we will replace it with capitalists who will make it an efficient money making machine (at higher costs to you though)
(drain the swamp!)