U.S. Postal Service seeks 8% fuel surcharge for package deliveries as Iran war raises oil prices

US Government: "...nah."

The average Republican, making less than $100k a year, reading your statement: “The socialists just want to sit around and be lazy while we work and pay for everything!”

We can start with the stolen Venezuelan gold

Everything will be increasing in costs by April

They want the post office to close and be replaced with private business.

Remember when Trump canceled the electric usps fleet order?

Project 2025. GOP has been foaming at the mouth to privatize everything. This is just another opportunity for them to go “See how expensive they are! The free market would allow competition and lower costs!”

MAGA won't care about SHIT until it effects them personally They are too incompetent and incapable of forward thinking to understand how this Will impact them down the line on so many levels.

Best I can do is make them a proxy arm of Amazon, Inc. Neither sleet nor snow nor self-inflicted skyrocketing oil prices...

The people who need to understand the importance of the USPS are the same disphit collective that voted for the people directly responsible for this in the first place.

If they understood they wouldn't keep electing Republicans 

USPS is essentially the spine of the economy, and people don't even realize it.

Thousands of small business would fold without USPS. Amazon would be the only storefront you could sell products on to avoid paying crazy shipping prices.

Ya, without USPS setting the base line price of delivery at cost, prices for packages and shipping would be astronomically higher.

what do u mean? this is a tax lololl

I am not so sure about that “most likely to vote against them” That was true in 2020, but not so clear before or after. There are a lot of elderly republicans who vote by mail because it is difficult to get to the polls. I look at both this and the SAVE act and wonder if they aren’t screwing themselves.

This is easy to explain. They want to shut it down and replace it with privately owned, billionaire-exploited private services benefiting a select few of them and their friends.

They hate things that benefit you because they hate you. Yes you.

Dont give them that much credit, they cant use photoshop, these people are plugging that picture of their gas station into an ai and making it do it for them.

Why bother with Photoshop when MS Paint works perfectly fine?

Why would Obama do this to us

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Mine still has an LLV with a rod knock 😔

I'm a 21 year letter carrier. My LLV was made in 1992. One of the other carrier's was made in 1984.

Well, there’s also a lot more non-electric transportation that happens to get a package to your door that isn’t just the final leg. Planes, trains, trucks, etc.

And they also screw both UPS and FedEx (and other airlines) over now. Priority Mail, or Air Mail and Priority Mail Freight all fly on UPS, FedEx, or other airlines. The plane I work on usually offloads 800-2,000lbs of mail every day. Most of it is “Ground” Advantage. All the surcharges they keep adding are pure GOP greed, the FedEx and UPS contracts are pre-negotiated fixed-cost contracts. We don’t get paid any more (as companies) if USPS raises the price that *all* goes straight to the government as profit.

*Looks over at billionaire class and endless wars in the middle east*

Your taxes don't go to the USPS at all, and haven't in a very long time. The USPS is funded by postage.

I totally understand that it may seem like a whopping 50% hit, but in reality USPS rate increases since 2024, including this most recent 8% *temporary* increase (April 26, 2026, through January 17, 2027), cumulatively total less than 20% overall. Let me make clear I'm not dismissing the potentially significant consequences of the increase. I also professionally rely heavily on USPS shipping, and every rate increase requires the periodic scramble to recalculate viable bottom lines. Especially recently I’ve been constantly making internal operational adjustments to successfully avoid raising my prices or passing higher shipping rates (and all the countless other incrementally inflating things) onto my customers. Unfortunately at this point I’m tapped out on any remaining wiggle room, and with these newly increased shipping rates (that significantly impact both my costs to acquire inventory and my costs to fulfill and ship it) I’m now forced to increase my prices across the board for products and shipping if I’m to stay in business. And that’s a big “if” as any inflationary price increases unavoidably compromise market competitiveness and ultimate share for which small businesses have increasingly struggled. While a temporary economic stall is likely recoverable and survivable, for many small independent businesses an accelerating long-term tailspin is not.

Probably would have if Republicans weren't constantly sucking the d*** of oil companies.

Came here to say that. I’d call it chagrin, but those idiots don’t know what that means.

Ah yes, famously they don't use fuel, so won't be increasing their prices. F****** what bro?

And they're impacted by the same cost. Wtf is your point? 6 7

Ladies and germs, ConditionHoliday2844, part of the reason prices keep increasing.