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37 cent stamp
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: WA
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Why do I have to pay 37 cents to mail a bill, but I get junk mail by the pound delivered @17 cents?
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Bulk discounts and computer-printed envelopes lower costs by quite a bit.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Originally posted by Turias:
Bulk discounts and computer-printed envelopes lower costs by quite a bit.
How?
Does gas cost less for the bulk mail?
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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It's because of two basic thing:
1) bulk discount just because of volume
2) bulk rate postage in this country has to be pre-sorted. On the mail, you see things like "CAR-RT 723423". This is because the mail is not only already sorted by ZIP code. It's not just sorted by ZIP+4. It's actually sorted into the order that the mailman walks down the block to deliver the mail (the "carrier route"). In other words, bulk mailers have to do half the work to get the discount.
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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On a sort of related topic...
My school makes us use their calling plan, which is $.10/minute. One month I made one 2 minute phone call, translating to a $.20 bill. I waited three months to pay it, meaning the phone company sent me three $.37 stamped bills to try and get $.20 outta me...
Me: 1
Phone Company: 0
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Originally posted by anthonyvthc:
On a sort of related topic...
My school makes us use their calling plan, which is $.10/minute. One month I made one 2 minute phone call, translating to a $.20 bill. I waited three months to pay it, meaning the phone company sent me three $.37 stamped bills to try and get $.20 outta me...
Me: 1
Phone Company: 0
LOL! 
Man 1, Bank 0:
http://users.rcn.com/pcombs/95c1.html
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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When is the post office going to wise up and have 5� increments!!!!!!!!!!
32, 37...
I would rather them charge 40� NOW and then not have to hike the price for a few years...
It's such a joke!
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Why can't we have the 17 cent rate and make the mass mailers pay the 37 cents. Pays for my having to have the recycler come over to the house.
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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If you've got an hour to spare, read this, it's really funny.
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Took me just about an hour as well. What an excellent story. Score one for the good (and decent) guys. 
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One should never stop striving for clarity of thought and precision of expression.
I would prefer my humanity sullied with the tarnish of science rather than the gloss of religion.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Originally posted by fritzair:
Why can't we have the 17 cent rate and make the mass mailers pay the 37 cents. Pays for my having to have the recycler come over to the house.
Cause then companies would stop sending bulk mail, the postal service would go under, and then no one would get mail.
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12" AlBook • 15" Albook • G4 Cube • iSight • Original iPod • PB 100 • Newton 110 • Quicktake 100
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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Originally posted by jld:
Cause then companies would stop sending bulk mail, the postal service would go under, and then no one would get mail.
Bulk mail makes up the largest % of business for the USPS. Not those letters to Mom and Pop.
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