Reply #4: Ending mass-mailer subsidies would help keep stamp prices down. [View All]

The USPS doesn't want to hear that.

Know what? Mass-mailers pay about half the first-class price for their mailings. The USPS doesn't want to end the subsidies because it thinks mailers will abandon it in droves if it decided to make the playing field fair to all. So, instead, they raise the price of first class, forcing all us peons to pick up the extra costs.

Know something else? They get a discount for "presorting" the mail and banding it into bundles of like-adresses. We, in the plant, then have to unbundle it all, so it can run through our machinery with the rest of the mail. Oh, and that "presorting" is nothing of the kind; we still sort it all according to the exact. same. rules.

So, basically, we're giving mailers a big discount for exactly nothing. No reason at all. NONE of the mass-mailings go out the door unsorted by us dur to "presorting"; we still work all of it.

Then the USPS complains about losing money. Well, DUH!!!!