USPS going down

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'Fueled by inflation': USPS stamp prices are increasing soon. Here's what to know. (yahoo.com)

Rubber stamp a price hike.

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Postage stamp prices are rising, again | Business | kitv.com

Rubber stamp a price increase.

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There should be an express line at the Ala Moana post office location. The time limit would be three minutes or less. When I spock one person in line with that large foam cooler. Goin' take long time.

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US Postal Service proposes new prices 'to offset' inflation | National | kitv.com

Beat inflation by inflating prices.

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USPS stamp prices going up beginning Sunday | Local | kitv.com

Your two cents will cost you two cents more to mail a letter.

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USPS slowing first-class package delivery to lower costs (yahoo.com)

Technology is supposed to result in faster service.

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USPS says it wants to raise postage rates — again (msn.com)

They want to make it an even 60 cents.

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Re: USPS going down

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tip...BnbcA0#image=5

The bottom line is that the mail delivery will take longer. It still is a good deal.
P.S Save the Manoa Post Office.

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Re: USPS going down

https://www.khon2.com/local-news/haw...-bite-attacks/

You can just throw the mail like one newspapa on the homeowner's lawn if they don't have their dog on a lease. I can just pick em up.

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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/...p-to-58-cents/

Still a good deal.

[Ron Whitfield]

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It seems odd that a few people are calling for the USPS to be profitable. We don't expect the FCC, the DOD, the FDA, or any other government department to be profitable. Our expectation is productivity rather than profitability, because they're a service, one that we pay for with our taxes. Congressional oversight of postal rates has been crippling the USPS for years... it seems ludicrous to expect to have an item hand delivered hundreds or thousands of miles away for less than fifty cents. How could profitability possibly be expected?

it used to be able to make great profits but has purposely been corrupted to limit it and steal those funds and technical properties.

[Robbos]

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It seems odd that a few people are calling for the USPS to be profitable. We don't expect the FCC, the DOD, the FDA, or any other government department to be profitable. Our expectation is productivity rather than profitability, because they're a service, one that we pay for with our taxes. Congressional oversight of postal rates has been crippling the USPS for years... it seems ludicrous to expect to have an item hand delivered hundreds or thousands of miles away for less than fifty cents. How could profitability possibly be expected?

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...2Xm?li=BBnb7Kw

Warning: Don't send fruits or meats through the mail.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...O5w?li=BBnbfcL

We better take warnings seriously.

[TuNnL]

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Your scenerio implies that the diabetic will not have enough forethought to order in advance of running out.

No, it doesn’t, actually. It simply implies that 91-year-olds are a little more forgetful than the rest of us. Okay, a lot more.

Use a calendar? Have a sticky-note on their coffee mug? Enlist a friend or family to help with a reminder?

Obviously you are new to this, so let me give you a little hint. Go to Longs Drugs and see what percentage of customers are picking up their Atorvastatin less than two days before they will be completely out of meds. My educated guess: more than 95%!

Now realize that a large amount of seniors are ordering their Losartan by mail, not by force of habit, but because they are too frail to walk to Walgreens or recently learned it’s cheaper to buy Crestor by mail then to pick it up at Mina Pharmacy (every penny counts when you are on a fixed income). You are talking about hundreds, if not thousands of kupuna who have no clue how this process works and/or are shocked that for the first time in their life, they have to “pay in advance.” Confused and disoriented is putting it mildly.

I think the "Duh" factor here is actually your assumption that patients and pharmacies are a bunch of dummies who cannot figure out how to work out a reasonable mailing schedule.

I don’t think intelligence has a thing to do with it. That is YOU assuming that human beings are the ones “working things out.” In this day and age, all this stuff is handled by computers. In fact it was YOU who brought up the concept of “automated delivery.” Computers can’t predict when a newbie mailman is going to put Latanoprost in a mailbox in 90-degree weather (thus rendering it unusable) instead of hand-delivering it to a patient’s doorstep. At that point, does it matter that it was delivered seven days early?

Think about it.