Has the rising cost of postage caused you to minimize the amount of things you mail?

My wife makes greeting cards as a hobby – - we sent out 45 to 65 cards a month. Christmas last year we sent out 75 cards some were over 1 ounce but under 2 ounces.

We don’t plan on cutting back the number of cards sent this year.

Nope. I still think the USPS is a good value, compared to the alternatives.

Yes it has, this year my wife said “I think we’ll stop sending out cards.”

No. I mail so little, and the incremental difference is so little, it doesn’t matter.

Consider this – stamps are now 73 cents.

Gas (yesterday) was 2.98/gallon.

And yet I fill my gas talk at least once a week and don’t think twice about it.

Postage is just not a meaningful expense to me.

I’ve never gotten into sending out Christmas cards, which is perhaps a bit hypocritical of me since I enjoy getting them from other people. Our church doesn’t nice thing though where you can bring cards in for other members and leave them at a specific location where they are sorted by last name. That way people save on postage. But I rarely have anything to mail nowadays. I remember how happy I was when online billing came along.

I rarely have anything to mail, either and only have a small number of christmas cards. My 20 ‘Forever USA’ stamps have lasted at least 7 years. But my sister mails things to her son, d-i-l and grandchildren in Australia. She saves a bunch up and mails it in one box. Costs over $100.

I bought new stamps just before the price of forever stamps went up.
I only have a couple bills a month that go through the mail. The rest is postage for Christmas cards and such.

Not at all. I appreciate the USPS and will pay what they need to survive.

No. But I don’t want to spend $5 for a hallmark card that never gets read.

I still think that it is awesome that a ~$1 postage stamp on a postcard can travel around the planet for so cheap.

I do think that shipping parcels cost too much for me for ebay, and Amazon.

If the selling process, for books, was easier then I would consider selling stuff.

I no longer mail things overseas. It’s too expensive. I send money instead, and tell them to get what they want.

No, but I never did any sort of mass mailing anyway. I am noticing the USPS prices going up though for packages, which is unfortunate. If I purchased a lot through the mail I do think postage prices might influence my behavior, but I rarely buy through the mail, maybe 4 or 5 times a year. I still have forever stamps to mail letters so I hadn’t noticed that yet.

The wedding I was recently invited to did a formal invitation through the mail, but the RSVP was a QR code or you could type in the website. I assume part of that motivation to do it electronically is the postage expense.

No. I still send cards and pay bills by mail. Yes, postage has gone up, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s not really that expensive.