The 50-cent stamp would represent an 11 percent increase in postal rates while making the postal service seem hipper and more in tune with today's urban postal consumer.
The U.S. Post Office, facing financial losses of up to $18.2 billion a year by 2015, wants to charge more for postage, more for services, and to suspend Saturday delivery, and maybe get rid of those pith helmets, and maybe sell a lot more of their right-hand-drive little trucks to Silverlake hipsters.
USPS delivers 40 percent of the world's mail, although, admittedly, 41 percent of the world used the USPS to send mail. Its revenues exceed $65 billion a year, only slightly more than the average rapper.
The service said last week that it lost $3.3 billion last quarter, and that it is looking everywhere for it. Such losses, said the Postal Service in a letter sent last week to Congress, would be "unsustainable" and would cause USPS to become "a burden" to the U.S. taxpayer. The letter called that outcome "highly undesirable." A response to the letter said "no shit."
Currently, USPS gets no taxpayer dollars for its operating expenses, which are funded by the sale of postage and postal services.
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