Gamefly, a Netflix-like rent-by-mail service specifically for video games, has filed a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission which accuses the United States Postal Service (USPS) of improper sorting, resulting in goods being damaged in transit. The service is useful for those who don't want to pay top dollar for new game titles. Like Netflix, subscribers choose a number of games ... [ read the full article ]
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There goes are stamp prices (Going up in May .02), So the new big 3 can send there DVD or Blue Ray, What do they thing one person handle them at every office , USPS is in the hole for money right now.
i have netflix & love it but if you need to raise my S&H charges please do so! i don't feel that my Netflix usage threw the USPS should raise everyone else rates! (yes i know USPS rates raise every year also)
The USPS really does give a rat's patoot about the damage it causes to its customers' mail. It takes a large dollar customer like Gamefly to get their attention, and it still won't fix the problem for everyone else. That's why I always ship UPS or FedEx. The UPS sorting equipment handles thousands of times the volume of the USPS' package handling gear, and yet still does thousands of times less damage.
Originally posted by BadCatt: There goes are stamp prices (Going up in May .02), So the new big 3 can send there DVD or Blue Ray, What do they thing one person handle them at every office , USPS is in the hole for money right now.
What do you think the USPS is for now? People don't send letters anymore, deal with it. The postal service is used for delivering packages via Fedex/Smartpost and dvd's/games/etc. If the postal service hadn't offered itself as a solution to these companies, they'd be out of business.
Now used for ebay. I put a comment about this in 2009 . WoW. That is a long time in computer time.
