This is a Public Service announcement:

Postage rates in the USA go up on May 11, 2009

Click here to go to the USPS site for details

First class postage is going up two cents to 44 cents and a domestic postcard is going up a penny.  The killer for me is that overseas postcards are now 98 cents each.

But all of the rate increases in the world won’t save the postal service.

Read my old post on why the Post Office is doomed.

It is not because they are doing a bad job.  It is because technology has changed.  The USPS will be the Amtrac of our childrens generation.

A young admirer with a postcard

Postcards are the lp record of the future

they will vanish in his lifetime

The record player is dead and it’s replacement the CD is dying because the IPod is a better delivery system.  We adjusted to the low-cost high value technology.  And we will adjust to the end of regular mail delivery.  The countries that do it the fastest will gain a slight competitive advantage.