USPS Price increase, WOW!!! 0

[ComicConnoisseur]

The USPS employers make upwards $60,000 a year.Plus their benefits are some of the best in the country. That might be a problem. Most usps mailman and cashiers make more than cops and firefighters.

Prove any of this.

I quit the USPS and now my wage is over 400% more. I could never have bought a house on the USPS wages. My top earning year was way below those numbers you pulled out of your rear end.

I have a few relatives(aunt and uncle) who work there. Their benefits are outstanding.

They have been working there over 20 years,so maybe that is why they did better than what you say you did there?

 

[bcphillips119]

The USPS employers make upwards $60,000 a year.Plus their benefits are some of the best in the country. That might be a problem. Most usps mailman and cashiers make more than cops and firefighters.

Prove any of this.

I quit the USPS and now my wage is over 400% more. I could never have bought a house on the USPS wages. My top earning year was way below those numbers you pulled out of your rear end.

I have a few relatives(aunt and uncle) who work there. Their benefits are outstanding.

They have been working there over 20 years,so maybe that is why they did better than what you say you did there?

 

When I lived in Dallas a few years ago, I would talk to my mail man all the time because he would ask what the hell I was buying (comics ). He always said his benefits were awesome and would hit overtime weekly and made over $70k a year. This made me feel better since he was bringing priority boxes 2-3 times a week to my door.

[towards2112]

And yet, my local carrier didn't pick up my shipments yesterday, even though I

had requested pickup the day before. MY carrier is not a good carrier.

[LOC Collectibles]

And yet, my local carrier didn't pick up my shipments yesterday, even though I

had requested pickup the day before. MY carrier is not a good carrier.

 

Most arent. The full time employees that make the decent wages are old. The new employees work 1-2 days a week with 0 benefits and a $16/hour starting wage hoping one day they'll get to full time which only happens if the regular gets fired quits retires or dies. I worked for the post office for 2 holiday seasons as a second job and as a rural carrier you get 0 hours of overtime and most work 6 days a week. Some even on Sundays now that Amazon feels there should be deliveries every day of the week. Everyone states the post office is broke. That's not true. They were strapped by Congress to fund retirement wages for the next century. When I left last year they were starting to turn a profit again. The USPS will always be around. Anyone that thinks differently obviously doesn't understand the volume the post office delivers on a daily basis. FedEx and UPS outsource A LOT of their packages to the USPS because they don't have the means to deliver them. They might have the planes but it takes manpower to deliver to 350 million people on a daily basis. UPS and FedEx will fly the packages and USPS delivers them. It works out for both parties.

[DeadpoolJr.]

Who do you think manages the USPS? The bureaucracy. The forward payment of benefits was precisely what I had in mind when I made my post in the first place....and that is a direct result of bureaucratic mismanagement.

 

Congress doesn't manage anything. The bureaucracy does. Congress only legislates.

-------

 

RMA, your post makes no sense. There may very well be mismanagement. But that's not what is in play on this issue. At the bequest of USPS competitors, Congress imposed a rule that other agencies and businesses do not have to follow, jacking up their costs exponentially requiring stuff to be pre-funded entirely that most employers do not.

 

now, perhaps, usps should not have allowed itself to have such large pension/retirement obligations. that's fair, but those obligations were cut WAYYYY back in 1985..basically if you started work then (and did like 27 or whatever years) you get a pension that is about half as much as workers who started in 1984 or earlier (this was not a usps specific thing, all federal benefits got much less generous)..so 25% of salary vs. 50% of salary for a pre-84 hire. So it seems like a typical mail carier hired after 1984 might be in line for about a $15,000 pension when they retire. better than nothing, but hardly posh living.

Additionally, the USPS is barred from owning its own planes.

Because of typical corporate welfare the USPS is mandated to use the airlines at whatever rates they choose to impose.

No they don't, your just making stuff up now. they have set contract that companies bid on like any other other government contract.

Wrong, in real competition the USPS buys its own planes like its competition does. Who do you think lobbied to saddle the USPS with airline contracts besides the airlines?

You seem to use trigger words like corporation, and lobbyist without knowing about them. It was a bid contract where USP lost out and FedEx got it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-23/fedex-to-fly-mail-for-postal-service-for-10-5-billion

 

You know that the USPS has lobbyist themselves also, or that much of FedEx's, and USPS's lobbying funds also help the USPS right?

 

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00010322&cycle=2016

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000143&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientissues.php?id=D000000089&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/issuesum.php?id=POS&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=M01&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000030737

 

From your own links

 

"All contributions to candidates from US Postal Service came from individuals"

 

Bottom line (if you actually READ) the USPS is FORCED to use airlines either passenger or freight, because they can not buy their own planes. UPS and FEDEX bid on the lucrative contracts (using the words in your linked article) because they HAVE THE PLANES. They profit from the USPS and actively lobby to force the USPS into contracts they wouldn't need if they could own their own fleet.

Corporate welfare

 

Still using those trigger words since you don't have any actual substance.

 

Do you you even know how lobbying/campaign donations work? Apparently not, and what does that line prove, or how does it relate to them being forced? Answer it doesn't. You seem to pick literately only one report (not article like you call them) and don't seem to understand what that means. Ignoring all the other ones that show your wrong

as for

UPS and FEDEX bid on the lucrative contracts (using the words in your linked article)

That has nothing to do with the other at all, and bidding doesn't mean getting. How does people reping the USPS equal FedEx/UPS lobbying?

 

 

FedEx has over 600 planes in their fleet, and let me tell you the 10.5 billion over 7 years, payed by the USPS wouldn't be able to afford that, nor do you seem to realize the added expenses having it would cause them.

 

Its pretty ironic that you tell me to read since it seems the only one here who should READ is you, maybe a few more times also so you can grasp the information.

[NP_Gresham]

Who do you think manages the USPS? The bureaucracy. The forward payment of benefits was precisely what I had in mind when I made my post in the first place....and that is a direct result of bureaucratic mismanagement.

 

Congress doesn't manage anything. The bureaucracy does. Congress only legislates.

-------

 

RMA, your post makes no sense. There may very well be mismanagement. But that's not what is in play on this issue. At the bequest of USPS competitors, Congress imposed a rule that other agencies and businesses do not have to follow, jacking up their costs exponentially requiring stuff to be pre-funded entirely that most employers do not.

 

now, perhaps, usps should not have allowed itself to have such large pension/retirement obligations. that's fair, but those obligations were cut WAYYYY back in 1985..basically if you started work then (and did like 27 or whatever years) you get a pension that is about half as much as workers who started in 1984 or earlier (this was not a usps specific thing, all federal benefits got much less generous)..so 25% of salary vs. 50% of salary for a pre-84 hire. So it seems like a typical mail carier hired after 1984 might be in line for about a $15,000 pension when they retire. better than nothing, but hardly posh living.

Additionally, the USPS is barred from owning its own planes.

Because of typical corporate welfare the USPS is mandated to use the airlines at whatever rates they choose to impose.

No they don't, your just making stuff up now. they have set contract that companies bid on like any other other government contract.

Wrong, in real competition the USPS buys its own planes like its competition does. Who do you think lobbied to saddle the USPS with airline contracts besides the airlines?

You seem to use trigger words like corporation, and lobbyist without knowing about them. It was a bid contract where USP lost out and FedEx got it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-23/fedex-to-fly-mail-for-postal-service-for-10-5-billion

 

You know that the USPS has lobbyist themselves also, or that much of FedEx's, and USPS's lobbying funds also help the USPS right?

 

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00010322&cycle=2016

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000143&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientissues.php?id=D000000089&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/issuesum.php?id=POS&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=M01&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000030737

 

From your own links

 

"All contributions to candidates from US Postal Service came from individuals"

 

Bottom line (if you actually READ) the USPS is FORCED to use airlines either passenger or freight, because they can not buy their own planes. UPS and FEDEX bid on the lucrative contracts (using the words in your linked article) because they HAVE THE PLANES. They profit from the USPS and actively lobby to force the USPS into contracts they wouldn't need if they could own their own fleet.

Corporate welfare

 

Still using those trigger words since you don't have any actual substance.

 

Do you you even know how lobbying/campaign donations work? Apparently not, and what does that line prove, or how does it relate to them being forced? Answer it doesn't. You seem to pick literately only one report (not article like you call them) and don't seem to understand what that means. Ignoring all the other ones that show your wrong

as for

UPS and FEDEX bid on the lucrative contracts (using the words in your linked article)

That has nothing to do with the other at all, and bidding doesn't mean getting. How does people reping the USPS equal FedEx/UPS lobbying?

 

 

FedEx has over 600 planes in their fleet, and let me tell you the 10.5 billion over 7 years, payed by the USPS wouldn't be able to afford that, nor do you seem to realize the added expenses having it would cause them.

 

Its pretty ironic that you tell me to read since it seems the only one here who should READ is you, maybe a few more times also so you can grasp the information.

You fail to grasp again, everything i said is backed up by your links.

Corporate welfare

[DeadpoolJr.]

Who do you think manages the USPS? The bureaucracy. The forward payment of benefits was precisely what I had in mind when I made my post in the first place....and that is a direct result of bureaucratic mismanagement.

 

Congress doesn't manage anything. The bureaucracy does. Congress only legislates.

-------

 

RMA, your post makes no sense. There may very well be mismanagement. But that's not what is in play on this issue. At the bequest of USPS competitors, Congress imposed a rule that other agencies and businesses do not have to follow, jacking up their costs exponentially requiring stuff to be pre-funded entirely that most employers do not.

 

now, perhaps, usps should not have allowed itself to have such large pension/retirement obligations. that's fair, but those obligations were cut WAYYYY back in 1985..basically if you started work then (and did like 27 or whatever years) you get a pension that is about half as much as workers who started in 1984 or earlier (this was not a usps specific thing, all federal benefits got much less generous)..so 25% of salary vs. 50% of salary for a pre-84 hire. So it seems like a typical mail carier hired after 1984 might be in line for about a $15,000 pension when they retire. better than nothing, but hardly posh living.

Additionally, the USPS is barred from owning its own planes.

Because of typical corporate welfare the USPS is mandated to use the airlines at whatever rates they choose to impose.

No they don't, your just making stuff up now. they have set contract that companies bid on like any other other government contract.

Wrong, in real competition the USPS buys its own planes like its competition does. Who do you think lobbied to saddle the USPS with airline contracts besides the airlines?

You seem to use trigger words like corporation, and lobbyist without knowing about them. It was a bid contract where USP lost out and FedEx got it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-23/fedex-to-fly-mail-for-postal-service-for-10-5-billion

 

You know that the USPS has lobbyist themselves also, or that much of FedEx's, and USPS's lobbying funds also help the USPS right?

 

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00010322&cycle=2016

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000143&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientissues.php?id=D000000089&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/issuesum.php?id=POS&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=M01&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000030737

 

From your own links

 

"All contributions to candidates from US Postal Service came from individuals"

 

Bottom line (if you actually READ) the USPS is FORCED to use airlines either passenger or freight, because they can not buy their own planes. UPS and FEDEX bid on the lucrative contracts (using the words in your linked article) because they HAVE THE PLANES. They profit from the USPS and actively lobby to force the USPS into contracts they wouldn't need if they could own their own fleet.

Corporate welfare

 

Still using those trigger words since you don't have any actual substance.

 

Do you you even know how lobbying/campaign donations work? Apparently not, and what does that line prove, or how does it relate to them being forced? Answer it doesn't. You seem to pick literately only one report (not article like you call them) and don't seem to understand what that means. Ignoring all the other ones that show your wrong

as for

UPS and FEDEX bid on the lucrative contracts (using the words in your linked article)

That has nothing to do with the other at all, and bidding doesn't mean getting. How does people reping the USPS equal FedEx/UPS lobbying?

 

 

FedEx has over 600 planes in their fleet, and let me tell you the 10.5 billion over 7 years, payed by the USPS wouldn't be able to afford that, nor do you seem to realize the added expenses having it would cause them.

 

Its pretty ironic that you tell me to read since it seems the only one here who should READ is you, maybe a few more times also so you can grasp the information.

You fail to grasp again, everything i said is backed up by your links.

Corporate welfare

Using trigger words again because you can't actually prove anything. A true defector. Says all my links prove it, yet only used a line from one of them that doesn't relate at all. Amazing the mental gymnastics of some people to justify themselves.

[NP_Gresham]

Who do you think manages the USPS? The bureaucracy. The forward payment of benefits was precisely what I had in mind when I made my post in the first place....and that is a direct result of bureaucratic mismanagement.

 

Congress doesn't manage anything. The bureaucracy does. Congress only legislates.

-------

 

RMA, your post makes no sense. There may very well be mismanagement. But that's not what is in play on this issue. At the bequest of USPS competitors, Congress imposed a rule that other agencies and businesses do not have to follow, jacking up their costs exponentially requiring stuff to be pre-funded entirely that most employers do not.

 

now, perhaps, usps should not have allowed itself to have such large pension/retirement obligations. that's fair, but those obligations were cut WAYYYY back in 1985..basically if you started work then (and did like 27 or whatever years) you get a pension that is about half as much as workers who started in 1984 or earlier (this was not a usps specific thing, all federal benefits got much less generous)..so 25% of salary vs. 50% of salary for a pre-84 hire. So it seems like a typical mail carier hired after 1984 might be in line for about a $15,000 pension when they retire. better than nothing, but hardly posh living.

Additionally, the USPS is barred from owning its own planes.

Because of typical corporate welfare the USPS is mandated to use the airlines at whatever rates they choose to impose.

No they don't, your just making stuff up now. they have set contract that companies bid on like any other other government contract.

Wrong, in real competition the USPS buys its own planes like its competition does. Who do you think lobbied to saddle the USPS with airline contracts besides the airlines?

You seem to use trigger words like corporation, and lobbyist without knowing about them. It was a bid contract where USP lost out and FedEx got it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-23/fedex-to-fly-mail-for-postal-service-for-10-5-billion

 

You know that the USPS has lobbyist themselves also, or that much of FedEx's, and USPS's lobbying funds also help the USPS right?

 

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00010322&cycle=2016

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000143&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientissues.php?id=D000000089&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/issuesum.php?id=POS&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=M01&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000030737

 

From your own links

 

"All contributions to candidates from US Postal Service came from individuals"

 

Bottom line (if you actually READ) the USPS is FORCED to use airlines either passenger or freight, because they can not buy their own planes. UPS and FEDEX bid on the lucrative contracts (using the words in your linked article) because they HAVE THE PLANES. They profit from the USPS and actively lobby to force the USPS into contracts they wouldn't need if they could own their own fleet.

Corporate welfare

 

Still using those trigger words since you don't have any actual substance.

 

Do you you even know how lobbying/campaign donations work? Apparently not, and what does that line prove, or how does it relate to them being forced? Answer it doesn't. You seem to pick literately only one report (not article like you call them) and don't seem to understand what that means. Ignoring all the other ones that show your wrong

as for

UPS and FEDEX bid on the lucrative contracts (using the words in your linked article)

That has nothing to do with the other at all, and bidding doesn't mean getting. How does people reping the USPS equal FedEx/UPS lobbying?

 

 

FedEx has over 600 planes in their fleet, and let me tell you the 10.5 billion over 7 years, payed by the USPS wouldn't be able to afford that, nor do you seem to realize the added expenses having it would cause them.

 

Its pretty ironic that you tell me to read since it seems the only one here who should READ is you, maybe a few more times also so you can grasp the information.

You fail to grasp again, everything i said is backed up by your links.

Corporate welfare

Using trigger words again because you can't actually prove anything. A true defector. Says all my links prove it, yet only used a line from one of them that doesn't relate at all. Amazing the mental gymnastics of some people to justify themselves.

 

[DeadpoolJr.]

Who do you think manages the USPS? The bureaucracy. The forward payment of benefits was precisely what I had in mind when I made my post in the first place....and that is a direct result of bureaucratic mismanagement.

 

Congress doesn't manage anything. The bureaucracy does. Congress only legislates.

-------

 

RMA, your post makes no sense. There may very well be mismanagement. But that's not what is in play on this issue. At the bequest of USPS competitors, Congress imposed a rule that other agencies and businesses do not have to follow, jacking up their costs exponentially requiring stuff to be pre-funded entirely that most employers do not.

 

now, perhaps, usps should not have allowed itself to have such large pension/retirement obligations. that's fair, but those obligations were cut WAYYYY back in 1985..basically if you started work then (and did like 27 or whatever years) you get a pension that is about half as much as workers who started in 1984 or earlier (this was not a usps specific thing, all federal benefits got much less generous)..so 25% of salary vs. 50% of salary for a pre-84 hire. So it seems like a typical mail carier hired after 1984 might be in line for about a $15,000 pension when they retire. better than nothing, but hardly posh living.

Additionally, the USPS is barred from owning its own planes.

Because of typical corporate welfare the USPS is mandated to use the airlines at whatever rates they choose to impose.

No they don't, your just making stuff up now. they have set contract that companies bid on like any other other government contract.

Wrong, in real competition the USPS buys its own planes like its competition does. Who do you think lobbied to saddle the USPS with airline contracts besides the airlines?

You seem to use trigger words like corporation, and lobbyist without knowing about them. It was a bid contract where USP lost out and FedEx got it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-23/fedex-to-fly-mail-for-postal-service-for-10-5-billion

 

You know that the USPS has lobbyist themselves also, or that much of FedEx's, and USPS's lobbying funds also help the USPS right?

 

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00010322&cycle=2016

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000143&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientissues.php?id=D000000089&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/issuesum.php?id=POS&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=M01&year=2015

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000030737

 

From your own links

 

"All contributions to candidates from US Postal Service came from individuals"

 

Bottom line (if you actually READ) the USPS is FORCED to use airlines either passenger or freight, because they can not buy their own planes. UPS and FEDEX bid on the lucrative contracts (using the words in your linked article) because they HAVE THE PLANES. They profit from the USPS and actively lobby to force the USPS into contracts they wouldn't need if they could own their own fleet.

Corporate welfare

 

Still using those trigger words since you don't have any actual substance.

 

Do you you even know how lobbying/campaign donations work? Apparently not, and what does that line prove, or how does it relate to them being forced? Answer it doesn't. You seem to pick literately only one report (not article like you call them) and don't seem to understand what that means. Ignoring all the other ones that show your wrong

as for

UPS and FEDEX bid on the lucrative contracts (using the words in your linked article)

That has nothing to do with the other at all, and bidding doesn't mean getting. How does people reping the USPS equal FedEx/UPS lobbying?

 

 

FedEx has over 600 planes in their fleet, and let me tell you the 10.5 billion over 7 years, payed by the USPS wouldn't be able to afford that, nor do you seem to realize the added expenses having it would cause them.

 

Its pretty ironic that you tell me to read since it seems the only one here who should READ is you, maybe a few more times also so you can grasp the information.

You fail to grasp again, everything i said is backed up by your links.

Corporate welfare

Using trigger words again because you can't actually prove anything. A true defector. Says all my links prove it, yet only used a line from one of them that doesn't relate at all. Amazing the mental gymnastics of some people to justify themselves.

 

And he proves me right again.

[RCheli]

This is quickly becoming a discussion that may go POOF, but there's this video from The Daily Show (from 2011) about what happened to the post office.

 

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/av8twx/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-too-big-to-mail

[NP_Gresham]

And he proves me right again.

 

 

If having the last word makes you happy have at it.

Enjoy the last word and being wrong

[BeachBum]

Anyone notice changes in the USPS customs labels that print off their website? They look totally different but I ran into an issue today. I printed a label for a large shipment to Canada and it gave me only one customs declaration form instead of the usual three. On Tuesday I printed one to Belgium and it gave me three of the new form so I'm a little confused. Is it one form to Canada now or should it still be in triplicate? The local PO had no idea (thanks guys) so I had to VOID the online postage and pay in person with the fill in form to be safe.

[VintageComics]

Can you not just photocopy the customs form?

[BeachBum]

Can you not just photocopy the customs form?

 

The three forms printed online had variations and weren't same same form printed three times actually.

[CKB]

Anyone notice changes in the USPS customs labels that print off their website? They look totally different but I ran into an issue today. I printed a label for a large shipment to Canada and it gave me only one customs declaration form instead of the usual three. On Tuesday I printed one to Belgium and it gave me three of the new form so I'm a little confused. Is it one form to Canada now or should it still be in triplicate? The local PO had no idea (thanks guys) so I had to VOID the online postage and pay in person with the fill in form to be safe.

 

There are at least two types of customs label. The one you can ALWAYS use is the 4-copy one where all the copies are actually a little different.

 

There is a single sheet form that you can use in limited circumstances. I am forgetting the actual details but I believe it is first-class packages and envelopes valued below a certain amount. A small package with a comic or two could fall into this category.

 

[VintageComics]

Can you not just photocopy the customs form?

 

The three forms printed online had variations and weren't same same form printed three times actually.

 

Gotcha.

[BeachBum]

Anyone notice changes in the USPS customs labels that print off their website? They look totally different but I ran into an issue today. I printed a label for a large shipment to Canada and it gave me only one customs declaration form instead of the usual three. On Tuesday I printed one to Belgium and it gave me three of the new form so I'm a little confused. Is it one form to Canada now or should it still be in triplicate? The local PO had no idea (thanks guys) so I had to VOID the online postage and pay in person with the fill in form to be safe.

 

There are at least two types of customs label. The one you can ALWAYS use is the 4-copy one where all the copies are actually a little different.

 

There is a single sheet form that you can use in limited circumstances. I am forgetting the actual details but I believe it is first-class packages and envelopes valued below a certain amount. A small package with a comic or two could fall into this category.

 

This was Priority Mail and the label cost $125 in shipping (36 pounds, 32 slabs) so it was over that. The fact that local post office had no idea what was going on with the new label kinda pissed me off. The supervisor was said "Call the 1-800 number" - how bout YOU call the 1-800 and find out.

 

The single sheet reminded me a little of the military mail label that prints now. Anyway, the labels look completely different than did last week. Curious if it's going to be this way to Canada going forward.

[Ghost Town]

Anyone notice changes in the USPS customs labels that print off their website? They look totally different but I ran into an issue today. I printed a label for a large shipment to Canada and it gave me only one customs declaration form instead of the usual three. On Tuesday I printed one to Belgium and it gave me three of the new form so I'm a little confused. Is it one form to Canada now or should it still be in triplicate? The local PO had no idea (thanks guys) so I had to VOID the online postage and pay in person with the fill in form to be safe.

I just shipped a box to Canada yesterday and used USPS.com for the label. I only got single page form as well. I gave it to a clerk at the post office to scan the label and she didn't kick it back to me. Hopefully it'll get there.

 

It's a nice change if this is the standard going forward.

[HOTFLIPS]

Anyone notice changes in the USPS customs labels that print off their website? They look totally different but I ran into an issue today. I printed a label for a large shipment to Canada and it gave me only one customs declaration form instead of the usual three. On Tuesday I printed one to Belgium and it gave me three of the new form so I'm a little confused. Is it one form to Canada now or should it still be in triplicate? The local PO had no idea (thanks guys) so I had to VOID the online postage and pay in person with the fill in form to be safe.

 

There are at least two types of customs label. The one you can ALWAYS use is the 4-copy one where all the copies are actually a little different.

 

There is a single sheet form that you can use in limited circumstances. I am forgetting the actual details but I believe it is first-class packages and envelopes valued below a certain amount. A small package with a comic or two could fall into this category.

 

This was Priority Mail and the label cost $125 in shipping (36 pounds, 32 slabs) so it was over that. The fact that local post office had no idea what was going on with the new label kinda pissed me off. The supervisor was said "Call the 1-800 number" - how bout YOU call the 1-800 and find out.

 

The single sheet reminded me a little of the military mail label that prints now. Anyway, the labels look completely different than did last week. Curious if it's going to be this way to Canada going forward.

 

The post office by me doesn't even know what's going on either, said it was confusing and should know more in a week or so

Really, they should know Now

But there is no savings anymore whether you go with the US Post office website or just bring to the post office yourself. I am still going to make them come to my warehouse and pick it up

 

Edited January 21, 2016 by HOTFLIPS

[HOTFLIPS]

The Post office lost a ton of money from us so far this morning, Since I provide the shipping, I have quite a bit of packages for UPS

As force of habit, I had 30 boxes set aside for the post office. We crossed reference what will be cheaper, and looks like UPS will be getting 29 more packages this morning.

Only 1 to the post office, If this was 10 days ago, the post office would be getting all 30 packages.

We still have the rest of the day to go

But looks like UPS is the way to go