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I'm a mail carrier, and you are mentally ill. But nice try.
Then you are obviously "POSTAL". Surrender your guns at any police station and please TAKE YOUR MEDS! LMAO
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I'm a mail carrier, and you are mentally ill. But nice try.
I am also a mail carrier, former manager (13 years until a rash of downsizing due to plant closures), and most of what was said is incorrect. The post office is NOT government subsidized in any way. We receive not one penny of tax dollars. It is all postage that pays for everything. PERIOD. Also, no window clerk makes $35 an hour. Most of the new clerks are now PSE employees that make around $16. Eventually they will make more, sure, and good for them, but not $35 at top step. (It was about $28 before the COLA)
It does not matter what mayor or governor you have in your state, they have nothing to do with the USPS. They have no say in anything since it is FEDERAL, and probably couldn't name the postmaster in their own city. Please stop saying things other people have heard as fact.
I NEVER said $35 an hour! I said $20 an hour. SO GETS YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT WISEGUY!
LOL rsmath, my Post Office in Maspeth, NY found some way to FIRE most of the educated employees 3-5 years ago (maybe someone paid off the Union). So my window employees used to be $35 very smart employees (and I knew them all from 2003-2008; when I could still walk until 2009).
THE BEST WAYS TO SHIP ON EBAY (to save YOU money as sellers- so you can pass it on to YOUR buyers):
To start with if you have NO PLANS to have TOP RATED SELLER STATUS (you must ship next day every time, you must ship with tracking every time, & you must offer 30-day returns), then you might as well ship single cards that sell for under $5.00 (or whatever you can afford to lose) in a CARDBOARD CD MAILER. With these postage is a .71 cent stamp (or a .69 cent FOREVER stamp) & these mailers cost less than .25 cents each. So $1.00 S&H is the MOST you should charge. This way many more of your cheap single cards will sell! NO ONE wants to pay $3.00+ S&H for a $4.99 OR LESS single card.
Others have issues with being charged varying prices due to the heavier weight of the mailer.
I can't speak for things he's said elsewhere but at least in this article he's factually correct.
edit. the $20 an hour comment is probably off.
I could believe more one or both of two situations: 1) a card or whatever put in this heavier mailer might get to be 1.1 oz or more, so you can't mail it at the 1 ounce rate, 2) the mailer is too stiff so it incurs the fraudulent non-machineable charge. I would say people are not putting the 2 ounce first class postage on it and additionally not putting the non-machineable charge postage on it and you get problems sometimes with the mail system returning due to insufficient postage.
I did get good feedback on an item I have for sale tonight. A two card lot that someone didn't want to pay for bubble mailer shipping so they asked if they could buy it for the listed price and let me use a paper envelope to save them money. I told them I would change it to free paper envelope shipping BIN but I couldn't sell it to them at that listed price delivered because I would barely break-even when you factor in first class postage and ebay/paypal fees.
I have a feeling a lot of people are going to want paper envelope shipping starting Jan 27th for most things under $5-10 just because of the cost to ship a bubble mailer even with no increase to slight increase in the closest zones to the shipper.
The only mentally ill people are the ones who read this whole thread.
The only mentally ill people are the ones who read this whole thread.
Put me in a straight-jacket then. I popped some popcorn and was thoroughly entertained (and educated in some posts) by this thread.