Say- maybe Bill Burrus is right- maybe the big bad mailers are getting away with murder. But here’s a suggestion- instead of eliminating those unfair discounts, let’s offer them to everyone! Why shouldn’t Aunt Minnie get the same discount as Capital One? Why not let her mail her birthday cards for 19 cents a piece or whatever? Read the rest of this entry »

From the Postcom web site:

Postalnews.com (a web site frequented by postal employees) posted yesterday a letter from a BMG-Columbia House to the USPS’ chief operating officer which said that current USPS rate plans threaten to put his company out of business. The following are excerpts from some of the comments posted by some of the visitors to this site.

“Fantastic…..the less mail, the less work!!!!!!!”

“Quit selling the Cd’s and DVD’s for 1 penny for the first order jackasses. Make up the shortfall there and you can then absorb some of the increase and pass the remainder on to the customer. The Constitution calls for Congress to establish this mail service and all men are created equal but don’t see where it says businesses are created equal. Guess your lobbyists aren’t greasing the right palms.”

“It’s the beginning of the end.”

“Another rate increase? Do rate increases make up for lost business, or is business lost due to rate increases?”

“Out of business so what? Technology is changing. The car put the buggy business out of business, the internet, not postage will put these dolts out of business.”

“Their products end up seeming just like rackets anyway. good riddance.”

“They ship at media mail rates for next to nothing. Goodbye BMG and Columbia house.

Quite a collection. You’d never know they were talking about one of their “customers.”