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If you have paid attention to the prices of your premises post Office , you may have noticed that they barely set up a few months ago. Under the direction of the general post office Louis Dejoy , the American postal service (USPS) increased prices Diffusion services of around 2% at the end of January. But the agency plans to raise them again in the coming months - and legislators now require a change in what they call "unbearable" USPS price increases.

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In a April 9 press release , the USPS announced that it had made an opinion from the Postal Regulatory Commission (RPC) of the changes proposed at its messaging service prices. It would be one of Most important price hikes The agency has already presented, aimed at an increase of 5 cents in the price of a first class cachet forever and an increase of 7.8% overall. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"As changes to the shipping and shipping market continue, these price adjustments are necessary to carry out the financial stability requested by the plan at 10 years of the delivery of the organization for America (DFA), "said the postal service in its press release, noting that its prices would be" always among the most affordable in the world. "

If it is approved by the PRC, the new prices would come into force on July 14.

It is unlikely that the regulators of this independent federal agency would deny the price increases of the postal service - the fact more recently in 2010, when they declared that the USPS "did not both quantify the impact of the Recession on its finances and show how its rate the demand concerns the loss of volume of mail that results, " CNN reported .

Meanwhile, legislators are trying to do what they can to prevent the proposed increase. A group of American senators led by Wisconsin Tammy Baldwin sent a letter The USPS board of directors on April 23, urging them to "take decisive measures to stop these changes and prevent other consequences for American families and companies that depend on the USPS to meet their needs" .

The Council of Governors, whose members are appointed by the President of the United States and include the current post office, "directs the exercise of the powers of the postal service, directs and controls its expenses, examines its practices, performs a planning to plan long range, approves the remuneration of officers and establishes policies on all postal issues, "according to the USPS website .

Senators said they are concerned about the future of the USPS and its DFA plan, which Dejoy launched in 2021.

"Although it is a step forward to produce a transformer plan, policies to date have led to a decrease in the quality of customer service, increases in unsustainable shipping costs and a decrease drastic companies whose trade is based on the USPS, "they wrote. "The USPS is based on both mail and packages for its income, but since 2020, the USPS has delivered 12 billion less mail parts, bringing the volume to its lowest level in 40 years , while not seeing any increase in compensation for the volume of packages. "

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Under DFA, Dejoy plans to Increase mail prices Twice a year - once in January and once in July - to optimize the agency's income. But the legislators claim that these price increases do the opposite and create a "destructive and repetitive cycle" instead.

"As the USPS increases rates, sending predicts their mail volume predictable and, in turn, the USPS is forced to increase rates again to replace the loss of income for volume reduction", Senators said in their letter.

In the end, they concluded that the price increases twice annual have not shown a sign of improvement in the postal service financial situation and could worsen things in the long term.

"We have a direct interest in seeing the USP succeed. Our voters rely on their daily correspondence, their bills, their drugs for rescue and sometimes their means of subsistence," wrote the senators. "It has become clear that by virtue of the DFA, the USPS continues to implement harmful changes for Americans and American companies that rely on service. As a governors, you must intervene before that additional damage is caused. "

Better life contacted the USPS about these concerns, and we will update this story with the agency's response.