UPS increases rates for 2012

How can UPS and FedEx keep raising rates 5.9% each and every year.   They do more

to harm the economy than anything else I can think of.    They make more

businesses go belly up than any other factor.   

Geez, don't you wish you could just raise your prices 5.9% each 1st Monday of the new year.

These Bast**ds are greedy as greedy can be.   They tell you it's because they are giving

us better service, but, they are just greedy bast**ds

If you want to save money and get good delivery times use the USPS priority mail with tracking!

For any skeptics out there go to there site at USPS.com and you will see a wide variety of shipping options and mailing services. The boxes you need are free and they have free pickup at your request. they are constantly revising the website with new and improved services. One which will be having the ability to send anyone your own personal card for birthdays, marriage, having a baby, graduation, etc; etc; through your smart phone. I have used them with great success for my ebay business using priority mail which has the tracking with it and you are able to print out your own labels. I then drop them off at the post office without waiting in line.

We need our post offices which is vital to or country that's why congress needs to stop making them prefund health care for future retiree's in the amount of 5 billion dollars a year. They also

have over funded the FERS and CSRS retirement systems by billions and congress is road blocking them from getting those funds. If congress would take the handcuffs off we would have a Postal Service that would operate in the black which also means rates stay in check.

UPS and FedEx rate increases have been too high year after year and do not reflect the realities of the recession. This is the result of the Justice Department allowing oligopolies and the destruction of competition. UPS billing department will nail you with an $11 address charge, even if you happen to have the street address correct but mistakenly put a wrong suite number. The truth of the matter is that UPS knows almost everyone's correct address and has it in their system. They are in the business of collecting fees. On the other hand, if they do not deliver on time, which means they promise to give you a refund, their billing department does not automatically give you a credit. You have to call to get the credit, wasting valuable time. They know people don't have the time. After all, do you want your $30/hour bookkeeper spending time with UPS on the phone? Their computer system nails you for the address change but does not credit you for late deliveries, a much worse offense!

We will miss the post office and it's secure deliveries and Federal laws protecting our mail. Other countries have dishonest workers who steal packages or just don't deliver the mail on a consistent basis. In Venezuela, as just one of many examples, businesses use private couriers to get US mail to Miami and into our system, as they don't trust their own country's postal system. Email is not secure.

If you like cell phones that don't work half the time, you won't miss the postal service. If you like distorted flat screen tvs, you won't miss the postal service. If you think digital pictures are as good as film, you won't miss the postal service. If like digital greeting cards, you won't miss actually receiving and having the fun of receiving a real card. If you think digital sound is as good as analog (LPs), you won't miss the postal service. If you don't mind when your electronic check paying system goes down, you won't miss the postal system.

Hairyntz: "What they need to do is get rid of the union and people who sleep on the job!! Believe me i worked there people sleeping, taking advantage of o.t. taking excessive breaks and lunch breaks. You want to restructure usps go in undercover and take a look for yourself.."

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    ...Good God, it was that great!  Why did you leave?  You could still be sleeping and taking breaks.  You weren't so stupid as to leave that were you?

The USPS is in dire condition due to a congressional mandate that they fund benifits for a strange period of 75 years. This policy effectivly kills the postal service...no business in America can do that and wont have to.

If you eliminate competition you set the stage for skyrocketing prices. Which members of congress had UPS and FED EX stock?