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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 826922, member: 19065&quot;]I agree Louie! I also think the USPS <i>right now</i> cannot keep up with volume or in attempts at repricing their service tiers too frequently without customers balking and going elsewhere with shipping needs. If the USPS could reprice on a daily basis what the actual postage would cost, it would likely prohibit direct marketing sales that are currently available to online and mail shoppers and this may make it impossible to serve the individual customer due to outrageous postage rates. Just as soon as all merchants realise that their customers can and will find almost anything in other markets for more competitive prices and only price at the lowest msrp (the same product in one market should be priced the same in any another market) can the USPS expect to see volume in such sales drop off. USPS customers are the direct cause of current volume issues due to buying from remote sources to get better prices, despite shipping costs, which merchants manage to keep costs down on by sheer volume of sales. The USPS and other carriers are just being used and it shows in how their customer service and attitude, both to individual customers and as an organization to their employees.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anything changes in Saturday service, it ought to be that Saturday become the primary parcel delivery day for the week, unless a per parcel surcharge is paid for special week-day delivery of parcels. This would free weekday carriers of the burden of delivering most all parcels or missing those customers who are away from home during the week days, needing to leave a notice of delivery attempt and requiring the customer to come into the post office to pick up parcels that were undelivered. This would also reduce reattempted deliveries. Saturday parcel delivery might catch more people at home and available to accept such deliveries, especially those requiring a signature. They just need to properly introduce and adjust such a new delivery program to the public and work through the learning curve, business week deliveries of parcels based on size or weight or urgency might carry a separate surcharge for the exception and there is where they could make their profits.</p><p><br /></p><p>sorry this got off topic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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