Berkeley Postal Service Selling Main Post Office

I wrote this blog after emptying my mailbox of an armful of junk mail and 2 actual letters. It made me think. I wish post offices would stop increasing prices on stamps and instead increase prices on the 93 millions pieces of junk mail credit card companies send to my house.

When the stack of mail gets too big for your mailbox they send it back to the Post Office for you to pick up. But when you pick it up, it’s not always worth it. Most of my junk mail is credit card offers, insurance offers and local grocery store flyers. The first two are really big industries that make lots of money. Why can’t the Post Office just raise prices on the businesses that use them most often?

Why continue to raise prices on the little stamps so all of the rent payers have to spend a dollar to get 2 of them? I wonder if that balances the books for them? I’m sure I’m oversimplifying the entire situation, but it seems to me it would be better for them to get money from the customers who have the most of it.

Just a couple cents from me.