Postal Hike

Reactions to the current 5/14/2007 postal rate hike.

[BananaFish]

Those of you that use the USPS (Post Office) for shipping. How are you going to handle the hefty rate increases, 10-25%. Pass it on to your customers? Eat it? For our business, it's going to greatly increase our FedEx volume. However, we're not sure about increasing the shipping we charge to our customers. You have to look at it from their point of view. However, I really believe this does have to be passed on to the customer. I'm sure it wasn't designed to be a tax on merchants and why should we subsidize the US Postal Service?

[jbinbpt]

There are lots of changes. We are passing it all on. The customer knows that it is coming.

[jwolthuis]

Passing the cost increase on to customers.

Also looking forward to flat rate international boxes. That will be huge.