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Offline credns

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Postage Stamps
« on: January 20, 2023, 07:55:52 AM »
Went to USPS site regarding price increase on Forever Stamps. There are offers there for 50% off on price of stamps. Postman says it's a scam but doesn't know how it works. Anyone know anything about this 50% off thing? Can it be legitimate? Help.
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2023, 09:09:17 AM »
Is there another price increase on stamps?
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2023, 09:58:16 AM »
Quote from: ironglow on January 20, 2023, 09:09:17 AM
Is there another price increase on stamps?
Part of the article linked...
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See more details on the 2023 price changes below:
Product   Price before Jan. 22   Price after Jan. 22
Letters (1 oz.)   60 cents   63 cents
Letters (metered 1 oz.)   57 cents   60 cents
Domestic Postcards   44 cents   48 cents
International Postcards   $1.40   $1.45
International Letter (1 oz.)   $1.40   $1.45

The USPS is also increasing the cost of sending Priority Mail by about 5.5%. Priority Mail Express will get 6.6% more expensive, and First-Class Package Service prices are set to increase by 7.8%. Priority Mail commercial rates will bump up about 3.6%.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/3798706-2023-stamp-price-increases-are-about-to-kick-in/
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2023, 10:55:47 AM »
Everything is going up in cost. Biden caused this to happen. Trump administration was the good ole days. Gas is going up again. >:(
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2023, 11:10:03 AM »
Well I have a bunch of 5-10 and other odd ball stamps so , I can get rid of them quicker. 8)
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2023, 12:09:32 PM »
Quote from: Bob Riebe on January 20, 2023, 11:10:03 AM
Well I have a bunch of 5-10 and other odd ball stamps so , I can get rid of them quicker. 8)

They’re shipping, UPS and FedEx sure does use them a lot. Or they use them. I sure do see those trucks outside the post office a lot.
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2023, 03:00:45 PM »
Quote from: TM7 on January 20, 2023, 01:56:31 PM
. . . the government doesn't like competition nor being under sold

That's why they took all the stamp vending
machines away.  Now you have to stand in
a slow line to get waited on by an indifferent
black woman while she argues with a border
jumper woman about sending a parcel to
meck-see-ko while an 8 year old translates
back and forth
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2023, 04:36:36 PM »
What’s a ‘Forever’ stamp? I thought everything sent through USPS took the complementary forever route.
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2023, 05:20:12 PM »
Quote from: phalanx on January 20, 2023, 12:09:32 PM
Quote from: Bob Riebe on January 20, 2023, 11:10:03 AM
Well I have a bunch of 5-10 and other odd ball stamps so , I can get rid of them quicker. 8)

They’re shipping, UPS and FedEx sure does use them a lot. Or they use them. I sure do see those trucks outside the post office a lot.
They both have the USPS delivering for them; a postal clerk told me how it works but it does show no matter from whom you get you packages, it is a total Chinese-Fire-Driill.
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2023, 05:58:31 AM »
Well, can see no issues in 9 replys regarding discounted stamps. No issues with USPS. No visits in big black sedans. No question from USPS regarding stamps. No lawsuits. No failures receiving stamp orders. No problems, no complaints so these discounted stamps must be legit. Hard to believe.
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2023, 11:16:25 PM »
My 84 year old mother buys Forever stamps in rolls of 100 for $25 from a woman she plays bingo with at the senior center. I never considered them being fake. Guess I'm gonna have to sit her down and give her a talkin to about this life of crime she's leading........................................... ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2023, 02:38:39 PM »
  Can't figure it out:
     My mail used to arrive each day, usually between 1100 and 1200, so i could plan on walking across the street to my box, anytime after noon and pick up my mail if I had any.

  Then came that storm to Buffalo a few weeks ago (for some stupid reason, our mail goes through Buffalo).
   During the storm and its cleanup, we got no mail.
       
  Forget that old "neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stop..."

      However, the mail since then, has been very erratic, seems it can arrive any time between 800 hours and 2000
    hours. Sometimes I get no mail for 3-5 days, then I get a bundle of letters...mostly junk, of course..
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Re: Postage Stamps
« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2023, 04:14:30 PM »
I received several pieces of mail
today that were delivered in error
to this address by the USPS employee
busily chattering on his cell phone
and I guess can't properly do the
job he draws a paycheck for since
it takes all his concentration to carry
on his conversation

If that  was me I'd have been written
up or fired
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