[Milsurplus] Re: [Boatanchors] Re: Postal Rates

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Actually, some rates did go down.  First Class Mail @ 12 and 13 ounces, for 
example.  11 ounces and below all went up.  But PriMail went up across the 
board, in the ballpark of 50 cents per pound increment.  And what the real 
boatanchor related discussion was about was no more Surface shipment.  So the cost of 
shipping anything over three or four pounds out of the country just more than 
doubled.  Last week it cost roughly $25 to ship an LS-3 to Europe and about 
$30 to Australia or the Far East.  This week those numbers have jumped to $75 
and $80.  And shipping weight on an LS-3 is only about 14 pounds.  By and 
large, most of the sets and components any of us are interested in (either military 
or civilian) now cost more for shipping than for the item.

In a message dated 5/14/2007 7:00:19 PM Central Standard Time, 
telegrapher at att.net writes: 
> Well if i understand this right, The post office changed rates yes. 
> BUT, the 1st ounce is 41 cents right?  the 2nd and subsequent ounces are 
> 17 cents.  That comes to lets say for example, 58 cents for 2 oz and 17 
> per oz from there on.
> 
> Previously it was 39 for the first ounce and 23 for subsequent oz's. 
> That came to 62 cents for 2 oz and 23 per oz for each additional one. 
> So in reality the rates have gone down.  NO?  Or did i miss something in 
> translation here?  Not sure how it affected certain other methods of 
> shipment.
> 

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