Thursday, April 02, 2009

Postage Cost

My company is dealing with the ever increasing costs of the USPS mail as they keep dumping their responsibility onto the business community. They are now pushing all the responsibility for keeping addresses current to the companies that send out direct mail. We now have more record keeping to do for return mail and then we have to keep for two years.

Using USPS to deliver mail will be more expensive and the delivery will get worse. I do not look forward to postage increases, an increase in the cost of postal equipment, having to devote so much attention to the training of in-house mail personnel, and the amount of paper-work that USPS will push on businesses. USPS wants M-F delivery to keep their losses under $20 billion this year.

If the government ever takes over health care I dread ever getting sick enough to go to a hospital and/or a doctor. I wonder if our experience with USPS would for-tell how our health would be managed by government bureaucrats?

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