[78-L] Who do these guys think they are? ^

[David Lennick]

I ran into an interesting situation yesterday at my friendly US Post Office 
when I went to ship stuff and pay for renewal of the box. Anybody else come up 
against this? On December 30th, they left me a renewal notice with a due date 
of January 31 and a fee of $48 for 6 months or $96 for a year. Yesterday, in my 
mailbox, was a friendly reminder printed January 28th, with a due date of 
January 31 and a fee of $60 for 6 months or $120 for a year. Loudly did I 
protest, since I had (and still have, in my opinion) a legally binding invoice 
for the original price, and yea did they agree with me, but the system had the 
new fees programmed in, and their claim was that all prices went up as of (I 
think) January 23..something that I still haven't seen in writing.

We left it at "We'll get back to you" and "We promise not to close your box if 
you haven't paid by the 31st" (since I can't, until I'm back down there in a 
week or so) but I wonder who's going to win this one? By the way, they ARE 
upgrading the service and will be able to accept UPS shipments since they're 
now allowing mail to be sent specifically to their street address.

dl