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4-17-12

How high of a price would you be willing to pay for a stamp if it meant saving the U.S. Postal Service?

50 cents (145)

31%

75 cents (41)

$1 (38)

More than $1 (11)

It's already too high (231)

50%

Total of votes : 466
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Only issue I have paying higher than 75 cents is that our politicians still have access to squander the money which would pretty much make our efforts null and void.
Ronald Nixon

This has been talked about for years! Why is everybody suddenly in an uproar about it! Its long overdue and the longer its put off, the more money that will be wasted.
Unwanted

Why pay more for the same sorry Union service.
Roezay

I don't really know because snail mail is more of a novelty to me now. In the tech age simple letters are now e-mail or text. When we do use mail it's UPS or FEDX for the most part.
FYM

We all complain about it and some of we seniors remember 1st class stamps @ $0.03. But, the fact is, we have the cheapest 1st class postage rates now in the world. The same is true for gasoline!
demitri

Raising stamp prices isn't the answer. The higher the stamp prices go the more people will be looking for other alternatives. Switching to online banking and using other delivery services.
Jane

What is the postal service going to do to save itself? Why should it be up to the public to bail it out with higher fees? They have the money but they need to manage what they have. If you take the government out and privatize the postal service with non union labor it would be profitable. As it is I try to do everything on line due to the cost of postage now.
Don

Shed the American Postal Workers Union or let the postal service die. Unless they make that change, they will be back asking for more every 6 months. This has been looming for years, let it go. Between the unions and the pick pocket politicians, there is hardly anything left for the service. USPS RIP -- 2012. Besides, we have free market alternatives for everything except the union contributions to democrat campaign funds.
Ed

The postal service just another government program the politicians have bankrupted. But remember it is not their fault. The American people just need to pay more taxes.
Broke Tax Payer

The USPS no longer makes their Comprehensive Annual Report available to the public, which means they are hiding a lot of assets and profits from all of us. Don't fall for their claims that they need more money. Look up CAFR to find out how much wealth owned/controlled by the government is being hidden from you. It's jaw-dropping how much our governments own and control, more than half the assets in the country. Look it up yourself if you don't believe me.
ExposeTheLie

The more you pay the craper the service gets.
Avoiding the PO

I'd go 75 cents. How much do you think UPS and FedEx would charge you to deliver a birthday card, especially with no post office to compete at the low end? But I can see the writing on the wall on this one. Soon the government will only have an army, and that's it. I bet the IRS survives. I guess that's what the righties have wanted all along, you're on your own, and we've got an army. Can't afford to mail in your check? Man that's too bad, you lazy liberal pinko, pick that guy up seargent, he's a vagrant. All you righties are smiling at that scenario, c'mon, admit it. 8-) We could use another Ben Franklin right about now....
Stampy Checksinthemail

I would pay .50 but since i don't send out a lot of mail it would not be a problem.
concern citizen

I sent 4 boxies of JIFFY cornbread mix to my wifes sister in Cannada cost was $35.36 and the sisetrer sent us back $40.00 to cover the our cost and it cost her $32.00 Ca
NAVYTWO

The USPS still provides a great service, even though some serious re-vamping needs to take place.
DH

Already too high. It's time to really privatize the service. The present system is a dinosaur. Like everything else time passes it by. We have to find a better way to deliver the mail and you can't hava a jillion little post offices. Internet, instant phone communication, etc. have all doomed the post office mission as it was. Personally hate to see it go, but we just can't afford it.
John B

I wouldn't pay two cents to save the post office. Every day I get my neighbor's mail, and my other neighbor gets my mail. I put letters in the box to send off, put the flag up on the box, and the mailman drops the new mail on top of the mail I am trying to send. The mailman rides---no speeds---through the neighborhood talking on his cell phone, not paying attention to traffic. As a matter of fact, I think he might be trying to date a lady down the street. All in all, I would not spend any money to keep this kind of nonsense going. I would rather just take my mail over the UPS store, where the employees are courteous and helpful, pay for them to send my mail, and sit back with confidence, knowing that it will get to its destination. The postal service is full of nut jobs. They need to either fire all of the present employees and start over again, or shut down completely because the service that they give now is not working for me.
Mother of Four

The price is already too high! With all the perks that postal employees receive along with their retirement pensions, maybe thinning out some of the employees along with shutting down the unions will lower rates and insure job stability for the ones that are left.
Dennis W. Wheeler, Sr.

Let's say 50 cents. Pretty much the next increment. Hey, it's going to go up like everything else. BUT, this business of making it an odd amount which makes for difficulty in making change is a real pain for everybody. And, we won't have to carry as many pennies around, right? May as well make it as easy as we can: 2 two-bits and you get a stamp.
Darcy's Ol' Man

Easy fix for the postal service. Cut all foreign aid and use that money to bail them out.
FedUp

I refuse to give any more money than I have to. If they were an actual private business and not a government business you are forced to use then I would do without them. I have had them tell me that even though a package was supposed to be signed on delivery but instead shoved into a mailbox that it got to where it was going didn't it! That was not the point we paid extra for the service and did not receive the service and good luck trying to get your money back. That is just one of many incidents using the USPS and forget over night or 2 day delivery. You can pay for it but will you get what you paid for? MAYBE When you go to them to show them that you paid for 2 day delivery and it was not delivered in that two days, well it got there didn't it! No, I don't think it is right to inflate their prices to MAKE us pay more when we get LESS! Start fixing what is wrong with the organization and make cuts! Treat it like any other business.
Karla

We must do what is necessary,I would rather be in the wonderful United States than any where else I am greatful
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