>With the Gas price all time high in the USA and an earning warning 
>today from UPS, I am pretty sure it is a good time and good excuse 
>for freighter carrier to increase the shipping charges. I knew UPS 
>and Fedex had a "floating oil charge (it changed probably day by day 
>according to oil price)" a long time ago for international shipping 
>already.
>
>So the next big one probably would be the USPS which had increased 
>the flat fee too many times in the past 5 years (the cost for 
>mailing a letter inside USA increased from 27 cents to today's 41 
>cents. For the same kind of service, the value of dollar almost lost 
>50%.).

Postage rates are going up May 12th: http://www.usps.com/prices/welcome.htm
A letter goes up a penny to 42 cents.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com
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