Postal Rates
» Postal Rates, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2002
If the respondent uses the Postal Service's Parcel Post service.
10b. If the price of Parcel Post were to rise 15 percent per item by year’s end, would you most likely:?
| Response | Small employers with monthly expenditures on Parcel Post | All small, employing businesses/Small employers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reduce the number of items sent Parcel Post | 12 | 5 | |
| 2 | Switch to a competing delivery service | 46 | 21 | |
| 3 | Pay the increase and maintain volume | 37 | 16 | |
| 4 | Mix | 1 | 0 | |
| 5 | No expenditures on Parcel Post | 55 | ||
| 6 | DK/Refuse | 5 | 2 | |
| Total (%) | 101 | 99 | ||
| N | 130 | 355 | ||
Notes: Thirty-seven (37) percent of small employers currently using Parcel Post would pay a 15 percent increase in rates and maintain volume rather than switch to another service or reduce volume (Q#10b). Sixteen (16) percent of small employers would pay a 15 percent increase in Parcel Post rate and maintain volume rather than switch to another service or reduce volume (Q#10b).
