U.S. Postal Service

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If you are a Herald Whig subscriber there will be three major changes coming for you to be aware of this week.

Tonight’s Herald Whig will mark the final Monday printed edition for Quincy’s newspaper.

Effective October 6, the newspaper will become a morning paper and will begin utilizing the U.S. Postal Service for home delivery.

Very little has been said about it but the United States Postal Service raised the price of a first class stamp beginning last Sunday to 50 cents.

If you remember Mr. Zip you are showing your age. Mr. Zip was the friendly animated postal worker that was used to promote the Postal Service's "new" delivery system using zip codes. Fifty-four years ago the first zip codes came out with ZIP being an acronym for Zoning Improvement Plan.

I have been on the planet for a while but I have never experienced this before.  The cost of a first class stamp from the U.S. Postal Service went down last Sunday by two cents. You read that right. The cost to mail a first class letter is now 47 cents and not 49 cents as it was last Saturday.

Beginning January 27, the cost of mailing a first class letter will be going up again to 49 cents, three cents higher than the current rate. The postcard rate will also increase from 33 to 34 cents.

A lot of things get done in Washington.  Some get the headlines and others get swept under the rug. One such piece of information came from a recent House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that approved a plan to phase out door to door delivery of mail.  The proposal is to move closer to cluster boxes and curbside delivery instead of the way it is now, door to door.

The more stories I read the more I have become convinced that people are getting increasing more ridiculous. Here are a few examples of stories I came across recently.