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new postal rates 2017

sunshine45 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:26:20 GMT

New postal rates coming for 2017.....wonder what that means for qvc rates?

New postage prices announced.
The Priority Mail Flat Rate Box and Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope prices for these products are:

Current- New
Small flat-rate box $6.80- $7.15
Medium flat-rate box 13.45 -13.60
Large flat-rate box 18.75- 18.85
Large APO/FPO flat-rate box 16.75- 17.35
Regular flat-rate envelope 6.45- 6.65
Legal flat-rate envelope 6.45- 6.95

Padded flat-rate envelope 6.80- 7.20
The PRC will review the prices before they are scheduled to take effect Jan. 22, 2017. The complete Postal Service price filing with the new prices for all Shipping Services products can be found on the PRC site under the Daily Listings section:

Re: new postal rates 2017

cherry — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:30:03 GMT

I might get egged for this, but I consider postal rates a bargain. If you had to hand deliver, or to hire it done privately, it could be well out of the price range for many people

Re: new postal rates 2017

sunshine45 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:50:01 GMT

@cherry

i might agree with you if i thought that the service was getting better, but it isnt. to me, their service has gotten worse over the years.

i think that ups and fedex do a MUCH better job than usps.

Re: new postal rates 2017

cherry — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:52:01 GMT

I can only speak for my own service and it is good. The people who deliver are courteous and they are dependable

Re: new postal rates 2017

Gram W — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:52:02 GMT

I will go buy a book of forever stamps. It will last me a year as I seldom mail anything. If s&h is to much I will order even less on line than I did this year and shop even more locally. I control my choices.

Re: new postal rates 2017

QVCkitty1 — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 02:05:54 GMT

Of all the packages that I order, the only times I've had a problem was with FedEx., and they are not helpful at all.

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september — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 02:27:11 GMT

The flat rate boxes used to be bargains. Now it seems like we're better off not using them.

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Shorty2U — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 05:18:25 GMT

The postal rates don't bother me. Of course I don't ship much in the way of boxes but my husband sells some small items on ebay.

I don't see the big deal of the price of stamps. We still mail all our bills and I mail cards out for Christmas and birthdays and such and always will.

Yes people may say its a waste of paper. But we shred and recycle everything where we live. We have to recycle, its the law.

Re: new postal rates 2017

Snoopp — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:06:48 GMT

Flat rate boxes seem really pricey now. I haven't sent anything using them in a long time but if I remember correctly, they hardly hold anything.

I have used ups and fed ex for my huge boxes. USPS staff locally are usually surly when they wait on people. Last time I wanted to view the forever stamp choices the clerk couldn't be bothered.

Re: new postal rates 2017

esmeraldagooch — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:20:51 GMT

@sunshine45 wrote:
New postal rates coming for 2017.....wonder what that means for qvc rates?

New postage prices announced.
The Priority Mail Flat Rate Box and Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope prices for these products are:
Current- New
Small flat-rate box $6.80- $7.15
Medium flat-rate box 13.45 -13.60
Large flat-rate box 18.75- 18.85
Large APO/FPO flat-rate box 16.75- 17.35
Regular flat-rate envelope 6.45- 6.65
Legal flat-rate envelope 6.45- 6.95

Padded flat-rate envelope 6.80- 7.20
The PRC will review the prices before they are scheduled to take effect Jan. 22, 2017. The complete Postal Service price filing with the new prices for all Shipping Services products can be found on the PRC site under the Daily Listings section:

Fedex and UPS are going up also.

Re: new postal rates 2017

HappyDaze — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:30:41 GMT

wow another rate increase. Shocking. It is ridiculous priced to send even the smallest of packages now. Funny though because gas/oil prices are much lower than they used to be so that can't be a factor into increasing costs. I wonder what else could be causing this...hmmmm...

I used to do alot of shipping of gift boxes to friends but since it now costs around $15 for me to send small boxes of goodies, I rarely do it anymore. Just too expensive when you got several going.

My hubby hasn't shipped anything for awhile and he had to get something replaced from Microsoft and they said we could ship the old one back and save ourselves $15 or pay an extra $15 and not ship it back and still get the new one. He told them we would send the old one back and I told him the cost of shipping plus the travel time/gas money would equal that same amount and he didn't believe me, lol. Sure enough, it cost almost $15 to ship it back and that doesn't include gas and time. I told him he was out of touch with the reality of things these days, lol.

I don't see anything about the regular stamps going up. I doubt they would since they just LOWERED them, right? Wouldn't make sense only a few months later to raise them back up. Why not just keep them where they were at?

I don't care about QVC s/h prices much since I can buy pretty much everything I want from them elsewhere for cheaper since most places have free s/h over a certain amount or at least discounts to offset the s/h plus some. I am sure they will jack up the prices again though. I thought I already saw a higher priced s/h $5.50 instead of $5.00 which it was suppose to be.

Re: new postal rates 2017

Mistreatedbycs — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 02:33:59 GMT

Sunshine45....not sure if you mentioned this possibly in an earlier post but UPS rates are also going up 4-1/2% and that's the average increase per year.

I really don't know how these online retailers can continue to offer free freight on a lot of their products, I know that's what the consumer is almost demanding but it costs someone something, freight is not free from any of the Big 3.