Postal Letter

Why is the US postal service so incompetent (part 10)?

I have dozens of gripes but the latest is that yesterday I came across some stamps from when I cleaned out my desk, they were the sunflower ones https://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10052&productId=10001418&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=10000003&top_category=10000003&categoryId=10000027&top=&currentPage=0&sort=&viewAll=N&rn=CategoriesDisplay&WT.ac=10001418 I wasn't sure if they were the latest ones with all the postage hikes so I went to the USPS website and clicked on buy stamps cuz the only other way to see rates was to enter addresses of one destination to another (no simple list could be found). So the one on top when i clicked showed the book of sunflower stamps same as the one I had, so I had to figure that was the going rate and I mailed my bills that are due asap. Well, now I find out the sunflower stamps they're selling on their website are for 42 cents and you have to include two 1 cent stamps to make it 44 cents which is the current going rate. I guess my mail well get mailed back undelivered and I'll have to purchase 2 cent stamps which are hard to find and re-send them and hopefully not get late fees on my bills and it'll be double work for the post office. Can't they post current rate stamps on their website or not make the 2 cent you need to add not part of the small print? Seriously. What do you think? My point is if they're going to be selling 42 cent stamps and I don't know it's supposed to be 44 unless I read the small print, figuring they wouldn't be selling the outdated ones on their website, then yeah that's kind of dumb because i had the same sunflower ones and figured those were ok to send. My eyes are weak enough, I didn't read the small print. If those are outdated stamps then at least on their website where people aren't going to make a separate transaction to purchase a pack of 2 cent stamps, they should sell the 44 cent ones. That's big time incompetency. Plus the other day I filled out a PO box form and paid for it online to save time, still had to stand 1 hr in line to get the keys only to be told to come back with a print out of what I filled online. That is big time incompetency, I should've just done the whole thing in person cuz i stood in line for nothing, had to go to kinko to pay for computer/print out and drive back to the post office. makes no sense.

Public Comments

1. union, they are the problems we are having all over. Especially the schools...
2. I don't see what the problem is. The stamps are 42 cents, and you need 44, so you have to add 2 cents. Why is this so difficult to understand? If you don't want to buy 2 cent stamps, you can take the envelope to the counter and pay with 2 pennies.