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Now it costs more to mail a letter. The price of a stamp went up 3 cents to 49 cents today. Price of stamps goes up this weekend - Jan. 24, 2014 (http://cnnmon.ie/1hr0g2y) by @jenliberto
6:10 PM - 26 Jan 2014
Price of stamps goes up this weekend
Last month, a panel overseeing the U.S. Postal Service approved a three-cent hike from the current price of 46 cents. But only for two years.

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So how much is too much for a stamp?

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Now it costs more to mail a letter. The price of a stamp went up 3 cents to 49 cents today. Price of stamps goes up this weekend - Jan. 24, 2014 (http://cnnmon.ie/1hr0g2y) by @jenliberto
6:10 PM - 26 Jan 2014
Price of stamps goes up this weekend
Last month, a panel overseeing the U.S. Postal Service approved a three-cent hike from the current price of 46 cents. But only for two years.

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So how much is too much for a stamp?

Try mailing something cross-country at FedEx for $.49. It's time to privatize the postal service or let them run themselves. Congress meddling in it is ruining it. Oddly enough, for all the bad press, they're one of a small number of functions of government specifically established in the constitution.

I have enough stamps to last the rest of my life. I hate to see the Post Office go down, but it's happening.

I have enough stamps to last the rest of my life. I hate to see the Post Office go down, but it's happening.

Only because of poor management from congress. They have infrastructure and a good business model. Even fedex contracts them to make deliveries. They just don't have the ability to make actual business decisions for themselves.

Only because of poor management from congress. They have infrastructure and a good business model. Even fedex contracts them to make deliveries. They just don't have the ability to make actual business decisions for themselves.

That sounds like "Less Government is Better Government" . . .
Which flies in the face of Modern "Liberal" Paradigmism.
Well . . . Doesn't it?

(or did I misinterpret the concept expressed?)

So how much is too much for a stamp?

Not .49. How much have fuel prices gone up? It takes fuel to deliver that letter.

Maybe President Obama will address this concern in his upcoming State of the Onion Address and announce that henceforth all mail will be free of direct cost to the mailer. (Miley Cyrus twerking in the background would probably seal the deal or at least minimaximize the objections.)

I support USPS by sending those postage paid envelopes back to credit companies, with something (anything) inside.

I support USPS by sending those postage paid envelopes back to credit companies, with something (anything) inside.

That sounds like a fun business. We should sell cement slices the size of a #10 envelope that are press stamped "No Thank You!" so people can return their junk mail to sender!

That sounds like a fun business. We should sell cement slices the size of a #10 envelope that are press stamped "No Thank You!" so people can return their junk mail to sender!

Thin paint stirrers, stamped: Thought about your offer. Thought about pudding. Mmmmm, pudding.

I buy a book of stamps maybe once a year. I probably give half of those away at work.

I've been known to dismantle Avon and various mail order catalogs, carefully folded to stuff the things. Really, anything (within reason and law) will do. Other junk mail is readily available. Scotch tape is useful to secure closure.



That sounds like a fun business. We should sell cement slices the size of a #10 envelope that are press stamped "No Thank You!" so people can return their junk mail to sender!

I actually mailed a few envelopes full of junk mail back to Capital One. I noticed a barcodes on the back so I blacked them out just in case it was a tracking ID. They used to send me stuff almost daily and it was getting annoying. I actually thought about going to buy wood shims to stuff in the envelopes. I got the idea from a guy on episode of Book TV on CSPAN. The finally stopped sending me mail when I sent one of their applications back and wrote a big NO! with one of those giant felt tip markers. I then wrote on the signature line STOP SENDING ME THIS TRASH!

I don't give a ratzazz about the barcode. What're they gonna do, stop sending me their junk?

I actually mailed a few envelopes full of junk mail back to Capital One. I noticed a barcodes on the back so I blacked them out just in case it was a tracking ID. They used to send me stuff almost daily and it was getting annoying. I actually thought about going to buy wood shims to stuff in the envelopes. I got the idea from a guy on episode of Book TV on CSPAN. The finally stopped sending me mail when I sent one of their applications back and wrote a big NO! with one of those giant felt tip markers. I then wrote on the signature line STOP SENDING ME THIS TRASH!

Yes! Is that the guy who said to pick up thin pieces of heavy metal, reinforce the self-addressed prepaid envelope, stamp or write "Hand Cancel" on the envelope and shoot it off to the offenders?

Does that really work? Will USPS actually deliver those kinds of things? Great way to support the USPS if so. And put me down as one who marvels that the USPS guarantees universal delivery to any address in America for now forty nine cents. Imagining seeing that .49 price on the overhead pricing menu at the FedEx or UPS stores is laughable. With USPS - put on the stamp, drop it in a familiar blue box in Key West, and it gets to Seattle, WA for all of forty nine cents. Mind boggling - and to think some people complain!

... So how much is too much for a stamp?
I have no idea.

I think the price of stamps will continue to go up until it reaches a point that a private carrier (UPS, FedEx, etc) will take it over. It is all about privatizing the post office. And then the question becomes whether to subscribe to UPS or to FedEx, etc and will they be interchangeable.