USPS plans 2025 rate hikes

[QChawks]

• The U.S. Postal Service plans to increase prices on various shipping services on Jan. 19, 2025, according to a Friday news release.
• The rate increases will support ongoing investments in the Postal Service’s network, per the announcement. Impacted products include Ground Advantage, Priority Mail, Priority Mail Express and Parcel Select.
• The agency’s board of governors believes the higher rates will keep the delivery provider competitive while providing it “with needed revenue,” according to the announcement. The Postal Service’s operating revenue increased 1.7% year over year to $79.5 billion in fiscal year 2024, but it posted a $9.5-billion net loss.

U.S. Postal Service rate hikes planned for Jan. 19, 2025​

Service	Rate increase
Connect Local	5.4%
Ground Advantage (average)	3.9%
Ground Advantage (retail)	4.9%
Ground Advantage (commercial)	3.2%
Parcel Select (average)	9.2%
Parcel Select (delivery unit entry)	10.3%
Parcel Select (hub entry)	0%
Parcel Select (sectional center facility entry)	7.1%
Parcel Select (network distribution center entry)	9.7%
Priority Mail	3.2%
Priority Mail Express	3.2%

Source: U.S. Postal Service. The price increases are pending Postal Regulatory Commission review.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Thanks Trump!

 

[Hawked]

I was told prices are going to start coming down.

 

[soybean]

I was told prices are going to start coming down.

There were a lot of other things you wern't told but will discover in late January.

 

[pepsicock]

Thanks Trump!

just cut the mail service to 3 days

 

[ThorneStockton]

just cut the mail service to 3 days

Why not only service markets where it's profitable? Let the market decide.

 

[pepsicock]

Why not only service markets where it's profitable? Let the market decide.

All I get is junk mail. I get my medicine thru the mail and that's about it

 

[Sullivan]

Thanks Trump!

The rate increase is occurring on Biden's watch.

It's more Bidenflation.

 

[pepsicock]

The rate increase is occurring on Biden's watch. Bidenflation.

Let UPS take it over

 

[ThorneStockton]

All I get is junk mail. I get my medicine thru the mail and that's about it

Do you live in an urban area? If not, just drive yourself to the pharmacy.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Cliff Claven is pissed off at some of you in this thread.

 

[Moral]

UPS, FedEx, DHL and Amazon all pawn off millions upon millions of packages to the USPS to be the last leg.

Let UPS take it over

UPS wouldn't want it unless it was financially advantageous to them. What would happen is rural packages would explode in price, or there would be metro parcel pickup areas people would have to travel to and wait in line for their parcel. Good idea.

 

[pepsicock]

Do you live in an urban area? If not, just drive yourself to the pharmacy.

I use eScripts . Don't like going into town

 

[QChawks]

just cut the mail service to 3 days

boomers

they want to check the mail everyday

 

[Moral]

boomers

they want to check the mail everyday

Also with the three days a week delivery, good luck staffing that.

 

[ThorneStockton]

I use eScripts . Don't like going into town

Yeah, I like to be subsidized too, but the USPS should stand on it's own and cut unprofitable routes to sparsely populated areas, or charge a significantly higher and compensatory rate.

 

[Tom Paris]

I use eScripts . Don't like going into town

I feel like you probably haven't been receiving them.

 

[pepsicock]

I feel like you probably haven't been receiving them.

And you voted for Harris. 😂

 

[Joes Place]

Thanks Trump!

and Louis DeJoy, for saddling the USPS with an entire fleet of low-efficiency gas vehicles (for the next 3 decades), when everyone else running delivery services is shifting to cheaper EVs.

 

[Joes Place]

Also with the three days a week delivery, good luck staffing that.

Why?

Set up M/W/F routes and T/Th/Sa routes.
You need roughly half the staff to cover them.

 

[SalAunese]

Let UPS take it over

UPS, often sends their shipping to USPS, along with FedEx.

 

[Joes Place]

UPS, often sends their shipping to USPS, along with FedEx.

And Amazon...

 

[SalAunese]

Yeah, I like to be subsidized too, but the USPS should stand on it's own and cut unprofitable routes to sparsely populated areas, or charge a significantly higher and compensatory rate.

Rural people want everything but don’t think they need to pay for it.

 

[Joes Place]

Amazeballs how the folks who live in Flyover Country want to gut the only agency/entity that will deliver them mail and packages on a more-than-weekly basis....

 

[Joes Place]

Rural people want everything but don’t think they need to pay for it.

The only reason they have electricity these days, is because of FDR & Democrats via the New Deal....

 

[SolarHawk]

Everyone, for the love of God. Pepsi is not to be taken seriously people.

 

[pepsicock]

Everyone, for the love of God. Pepsi is not to be taken seriously people.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/investing/us-postal-service-loss/index.html

 

[mnole03]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/investing/us-postal-service-loss/index.html

Maybe we should stop subsidizing mail delivery to the poor red states.

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

Maybe we should stop subsidizing mail delivery to the poor red states.

We already subsidized getting the power grid to them. They earned it though.

 

[billanole]

Yeah, I like to be subsidized too, but the USPS should stand on it's own and cut unprofitable routes to sparsely populated areas, or charge a significantly higher and compensatory rate.

Congress continually stops USPS rate hikes that would help them be profitable.
It is a sorta public, sorta independent service that Congress continues to muck with.
Regarding rates, you can send a package to Alaska or Hawaii at the same cost to send it 30 minutes away from your house.
UPS has many surcharges involved, besides charging more per distance.
Distance from the hub once it reaches the region... more.
Residential delivery… more.
Decide to drop the package off at a @
delivery point” just because they decided to … Better pick up within three days or it returns to sender. Or gets lost.

Try sending a “letter” via UPS or FedEx. You will love the price.

 

[SolarHawk]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/investing/us-postal-service-loss/index.html

https://apwu.org/usps-fairness-act

Now go back to the football board

 

[fredjr82]

Everyone, for the love of God. Pepsi is not to be taken seriously people.

Just another reason the Union should have burned the South to the ground and started over.

 

[BioHawk]

Why not only service markets where it's profitable? Let the market decide.

Because there is a constitutional obligation to make sure there is a mail service for everyone. The USPS shouldn't be looking to make money but should be looking to make sure every home has access to it.

On the other hand, we are in an age of just completely ignoring parts of the constitution that are inconvenient and doing it anyway and with the current Supreme Court it just doesn't matter what the Constitution actually says.

 

[mnole03]

Because there is a constitutional obligation to make sure there is a mail service for everyone. The USPS shouldn't be looking to make money but should be looking to make sure every home has access to it.

There is no such obligation.

 

[BioHawk]

There is no such obligation.

Check Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7 of the Constitution.

The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription

[get-content name="print-page-left" include-tag="false" /] Note: The following text is a transcription of the Constitution as it was inscribed by Jacob Shallus on parchment (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflect the original.

www.archives.gov

But again. Everything in that document is just a suggestion for Trump so who knows.