Not another rate increase!
Here’s one argument for postal reform- streamlining the rate setting process might avoid giving people the impression that stamp prices go up every couple of months. This week’s BOG meeting, which set the implementation date for the rate increase being considered by the PRC produced headlines like this: ”Postal Service plans to raise rates“, as if this was yet another increase. Once the PRC makes a decision, there will be more headlines, followed by still more when the BOG accepts the decision, followed by even more when the rates actually go into effect.
Our competitors raise their rates at least once a year, in January, and slap on fuel surcharges and other extra fees whenever they see fit, with barely a peep from the press- what’s wrong with this picture?
