ecommerce Bytes--I was driving back from, appropriately enough, dropping off a package at my local post office when I heard on the radio that the U.S. Postal Service is considering raising rates again; this time from 46 to 49 cents for a first-class letter stamp. Also, "the cost for each additional ounce of first-class mail would increase a penny to 21 cents while the price of mailing a postcard would rise by a cent, to 34 cents. The cost to mail a letter to an international destination would jump 5 cents to $1.15," according to the AP. But the hikes must be approved by the independent Postal Regulatory Commission; if they OK it, the the new rates would become effective Jan. 26, 2014. But the thing I'm wondering is, are there other ways the U.S. Postal Service can get out of the red and into the black...creative ways, perhaps, that wouldn't necessarily involve rate hikes? Read more!
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