[Vision2020] "USPS vs. FedEx/UPS" Concerns

[Art Deco]

We are really getting a carried away with just one example with very little factual content to make huge conclusions.

What was shipped?  Was it media for which the USPS does have a special rate?  Did it go to an APO or FPS for which the USPS also has special rates?

What are the facts that account for the difference in rates?

w.


From: Tom Hansen 
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:59 AM
To: Wayne Price 
Cc: Moscow Vision 2020 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] "USPS vs. FedEx/UPS" Concerns


So, what you are suggesting, Mr. Price, is to . . .

Charge families and friends of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines an additional 400%, beyond what they are paying now, for mailing of packages?

Require tax-payers of Idaho to pay some majorly exorbitant increase in taxes for packages mailed from state government agencies . . . coupled with costs associated with packages mailed from federal agencies?

I'm guessin' that the additional annual costs will exceed $5 billion, dontcha think or dontcha think?

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown

On Nov 21, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Wayne Price <bear at moscow.com> wrote:

> Wrapping it  in a flag doesn't change the FACT that the US Postal Service, for one reason or another, LOST  over 5 BILLION dollars last year.
> How do YOU propose to change that, or should the tax payers  cover the losses?
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> On Nov 21, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Moscow Cares wrote:
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>> A couple things to consider if the USPS were to close shop . . .
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>> - If Mary Jones were to send a 15-pound Christmas package from Moscow, Idaho to her son, CPL Jerry Smith, serving with Company D, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry at Harvey Barracks (Kitzingen, Germany), it would cost her
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>> $45.50 by USPS
>> http://ircalc.usps.gov/MailServices.aspx?country=10137&m=6&p=5&o=0
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>> $222.68 by UPS
>> https://wwwapps.ups.com/ctc/request
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>> - How many packages, on a monthly basis, are mailed by government agencies in the state of Idaho?
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>> Another "savings" to be passed on to the tax-payer!
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>> Thoughts, V-peeps?
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>> Seeya round town, Moscow.
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>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
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>> If not now, when?"
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