lilibat:vaspider:This is what I mean when I say that NerdyKeppie will REALLY struggle to remain viab
lilibat:vaspider:This is what I mean when I say that NerdyKeppie will REALLY struggle to remain viable if the USPS goes under. For all of our patch orders shipped within the US, NerdyKeppie charges a flat $5 shipping fee. This covers the cost of the envelope, the label, and the actual postage, which ranges between $3.18 and $3.80. Sometimes what a customer pays doesn’t quite cover all our shipping costs, sometimes there are a few pennies left over. It all comes out in the wash.This is a screenshot that I took of the shipping costs on an active order on NerdyKeppie.com – if I wanted to ship this tonight, it would cost me $3.18 in postage to send five of our embroidered patches literally three thousand miles: they’d go from Portland, OR to a suburb of Philadelphia in three business days, for THREE DOLLARS AND EIGHTEEN CENTS. In this time of ‘free shipping’, when companies roll costs in to their pricing, customers often don’t realize how much shipping costs, so I’m pulling back the veil on this, and on how much of a difference it would make to small businesses like mine if the USPS went away. Look at the difference between USPS First Class and UPS Ground. Not only does it cost almost THREE TIMES AS MUCH, but it takes an extra two business days. And this? This is a cheap package. This is patches. You want to talk about how much more it would cost to ship our microwaveable heating pads via UPS Ground? Honestly, we’d have to just discontinue them. No one’s going to pay $30 in shipping to get a heating pad shipped to them domestically. What makes the heating pads viable are the Priority Mail flat rate boxes. We can fit two mediums or one XXL heating pad in a medium flat rate box and ship it anywhere in the US for under $10, and those things weigh multiple pounds. The “if it fits, it ships” boxes make an entire section of our business viable. I don’t think people truly understand what will happen to little businesses like NerdyKeppie if the USPS goes away, or how much more it will cost y'all to get items shipped to you from the small businesses which are already struggling in this current situation. That’s not even going into the fact that my girlfriend’s medication is delivered to us by USPS, and that many people in remote and rural portions of the country absolutely rely on the United States Postal Service for delivery of food, medication, and other essentials, especially during this current crisis. Call your representative. Don’t just email, don’t just ResistBot, get on the phone and call if you are physically capable of doing so. Please. I know, I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder, it sucks to make phone calls, it truly does. But we NEED the USPS. It’s in the damn Constitution, people. That’s how much the Framers understood that the USPS was a necessity for democracy. Without the free movement of ideas, of written words, of documents, of goods, we cannot have a functioning society. BUY STAMPS WHETHER YOU NEED THEM OR NOT!!! -- source link
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