USPS Rates Increasing!!

[Dan McEntee]

   If you ship by Pirateship, then you probably got the notice from them that USPS rates are going up, and it ain't even Christmas season yet!!! Here is a link to their information page on the new rates:

    https://support.pirateship.com/en/articles/11648947-usps-rate-change-july-2025?utm_source=intercom&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-07-13_RateChange-USPS

   Rates keep going up and service still sucks for the most part. I still have lots of issues, and just have to be diligent about what and when I send something, whether it just be a bill or check to someone, or shipping a larger package.  Way back in March, I asked Dave Trible for a sample of the teabag paper that he got from overseas so I could compare it to some other stuff I had found locally, and he sent out some in a large manila envelope. I saw Dave at Jim Lee's fun fly at the beginning of June and asked about it, as by that time, I had not received it. On July 2, 2025, guess what turned up in my mail!! The big yellow envelope that had a March 22 postage mark stamped on it!! It was in good shape, no damage, but it only had to come from Kansas City to St. Louis, so where in the hell was it hiding all that time, more than 3 months! My biggest issue with the USPS now is stuff like this. I have an account with them and use their "Preferred Mail" feature that sends me an email each morning with what I can expect in my mail that day, and quite often it still takes an extra day or more sometimes for what I see in the scans to get to me!! Just absolutely pitiful!! But judging from what you will read on that linked page, it will be more expensive to send large packages like kit boxes, but at least Pirateship can soften the blow and they also offer UPS rates now also, and sometimes they blow the USPS out of the water, and sometime not. But it's worth looking into.

  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[Gerald Arana]

   If you ship by Pirateship, then you probably got the notice from them that USPS rates are going up, and it ain't even Christmas season yet!!! Here is a link to their information page on the new rates:

    https://support.pirateship.com/en/articles/11648947-usps-rate-change-july-2025?utm_source=intercom&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-07-13_RateChange-USPS

   Rates keep going up and service still sucks for the most part. I still have lots of issues, and just have to be diligent about what and when I send something, whether it just be a bill or check to someone, or shipping a larger package.  Way back in March, I asked Dave Trible for a sample of the teabag paper that he got from overseas so I could compare it to some other stuff I had found locally, and he sent out some in a large manila envelope. I saw Dave at Jim Lee's fun fly at the beginning of June and asked about it, as by that time, I had not received it. On July 2, 2025, guess what turned up in my mail!! The big yellow envelope that had a March 22 postage mark stamped on it!! It was in good shape, no damage, but it only had to come from Kansas City to St. Louis, so where in the hell was it hiding all that time, more than 3 months! My biggest issue with the USPS now is stuff like this. I have an account with them and use their "Preferred Mail" feature that sends me an email each morning with what I can expect in my mail that day, and quite often it still takes an extra day or more sometimes for what I see in the scans to get to me!! Just absolutely pitiful!! But judging from what you will read on that linked page, it will be more expensive to send large packages like kit boxes, but at least Pirateship can soften the blow and they also offer UPS rates now also, and sometimes they blow the USPS out of the water, and sometime not. But it's worth looking into.

  Type at you later,

Why am I not surprised?

GA
   Dan McEntee

[Rusty]

   If you ship by Pirateship, then you probably got the notice from them that USPS rates are going up, and it ain't even Christmas season yet!!! Here is a link to their information page on the new rates:

    https://support.pirateship.com/en/articles/11648947-usps-rate-change-july-2025?utm_source=intercom&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-07-13_RateChange-USPS

   Rates keep going up and service still sucks for the most part. I still have lots of issues, and just have to be diligent about what and when I send something, whether it just be a bill or check to someone, or shipping a larger package.  Way back in March, I asked Dave Trible for a sample of the teabag paper that he got from overseas so I could compare it to some other stuff I had found locally, and he sent out some in a large manila envelope. I saw Dave at Jim Lee's fun fly at the beginning of June and asked about it, as by that time, I had not received it. On July 2, 2025, guess what turned up in my mail!! The big yellow envelope that had a March 22 postage mark stamped on it!! It was in good shape, no damage, but it only had to come from Kansas City to St. Louis, so where in the hell was it hiding all that time, more than 3 months! My biggest issue with the USPS now is stuff like this. I have an account with them and use their "Preferred Mail" feature that sends me an email each morning with what I can expect in my mail that day, and quite often it still takes an extra day or more sometimes for what I see in the scans to get to me!! Just absolutely pitiful!! But judging from what you will read on that linked page, it will be more expensive to send large packages like kit boxes, but at least Pirateship can soften the blow and they also offer UPS rates now also, and sometimes they blow the USPS out of the water, and sometime not. But it's worth looking into.

  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

The USPS has NO accountability.  They lost my retirement package that was send overnight express mail. It made 80 miles from here and was lost.  Then after that, I mailed 2 registered letters, that were lost and never found.   I went the post office to speak the post master about this and he refused to speak to me.