Postal Rates
» Postal Rates, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2002
If respondent uses the Postal Service's Parcel Post service AND would pay a 15 percent rate increase and maintain volume rather than switching or reducing volume.
10b1. Why would you pay the increase rather than switch services? Is it because the Postal Service is:?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The only viable option | 9 | ||
| 2 | The cheapest way to go | 9 | ||
| 3 | Provides the best services | 9 | ||
| 4 | Offers the most convenience | 60 | ||
| 5 | Other | 8 | ||
| 6 | DK/Refuse | 5 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 51 | |||
Notes: Sixty (60) percent of small employers who use Parcel Post and would pay a 15 percent rate increase (by year's end) and maintain volume, would not switch services because the Postal Service offers the most convenience (Q#10b1).
