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Re:Americans Are Receiving Unordered Parcels from Chinese E-... by tasty_freeze on Sunday December 17, 2017 @11:32AM (#15946359)
They are also required, by law, to come to any address in the US, pick up a single letter, and get it to any other arbitrary address in the US for $0.49. Good luck getting FedEx or UPS to do it for 49 cents.
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Re:Americans Are Receiving Unordered Parcels from Chinese E-... by colejohnson66 on Sunday December 17, 2017 @11:43AM (#15946413)
> for 49 cents

I’ve seen forever stamps marketed for years, but it’s been a long time since the price of a letter went up. So, if the price went up to 51 cents, your forever stamps would still work, but, honest question, what are the realistic chances of that happening?

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Re:Americans Are Receiving Unordered Parcels from Chinese E-... by mjcl on Sunday December 17, 2017 @12:32PM (#15946666)
Between 2006 and 2017 the first class letter rate has gone up eight times and down once. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_posta...

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Re:Americans Are Receiving Unordered Parcels from Chinese E-... by maxerickson on Sunday December 17, 2017 @11:52AM (#15946458)
Low population density areas aren't guaranteed service.
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