Greeting cards and gift cards are two new items the Postal Service is utilizing to raise more revenue. They are currently only available in select Post Offices.
Have you purchased either of these items? What did you like about them? What would you improve?
If they were available at your office would you purchase them?
12 comments:
Offer a VISA card, not just American Express.
I wish they would let us sell them in the rural post offices.People are always coming in to ask if I sell them.Please let us sell them
Allow any post office to order them like we do stamps. This idea that someone in Washington knows what the small offices can and can not do is ridiciouls! They send you stamps we don't want....but won't let us have stamps we know we can sell???????
Agreed!!! I know it would be great for my little rural office if we could sell gift cards, and I also agree that we should offer more than am express...I personally have found it's hard to find a retailer that accepts am express!
I'm more than capable of ordering the stamps that my customers will buy. I don't need automatic shipments of stamps I can't sell just because they're politically correct. I'm paid to manage my office so please let me do it!
I agree with all of the above.Let us sell Gift cards.Rural offices can sell this gift cards if we were given the chance.
I would be able to sell the Greeting Cards. It is at least 10-15 miles for my customers to go to a store to buy a Greeting card to send to a neighbor or relative to express sympathy or celebration. I would buy them also because sometimes I find out there is an elderly customer's birthday or someone has passed away in the family and I would be able to purchase the card and stamp and right then and there, because I forget to stop at the store on my way home or I do not want to walk around a Big Box store.
The gift cards if they were Visa or Mastercard not American Express.
I have bought numerous greeting cards at the Post Office. Once, they had coupons for 50% off, but you could only buy 1 at a time. I went back every day to buy another card. In addition, they continued to price them 50% off for some time after the coupon promotion ended. They are nice cards and are already priced lower than at other outlets. Try it; you'll like the cards. I would buy the gift cards if they were MasterCard or Visa -- even Discover -- and not American Express; the average store does not take Amex.
As many of you have already picked up on, American Express is not widely accepted. Somewhere there was money envolved.."If we sell their cards American Express will give us "X" amount of dollars". Just another poor decision by someone above. Whats next "Diners Club" gift cards with Telley Sevallas?
I agree with everyone. As far as American Express cards I would not buy the card one i can't use it at most of the places I go to shop and 2 it has a hidden fee. If you remember there was a big news story about this card and many others that you were losing some of the money you put on them becuase you did not spend it fast enough or when you went to the check out line you were charged a fee to use the card. Why are we only teaming up with the one company that has already cheated consumers. Who is the person that is oking this? Do they do the homework?
I am not a rural post office but i am a small office and we don't get any of the holiday promotions or any of the specail offers. We do get the stamps that we can not sell. I agree we can order the stamps we know we can sell, becuase we know our customers better than anyone eles. Those of us in these smaller offices and in the rural offices get to know our customers and what they like and what they will and will not buy from us. I can tell you most of the stamps that were sent out this year were a big disappointment to many customers. When you look back at the old time stamps there had great detail and showed that someone really cared about the art work on the stamp.
I am a small office like the rest of you here. I did not get any of the holiday offers either. The credit card offer I really didn't want to begin with. If it was someone other than American Express than I would have wanted to sell it. As far as stamps we can not sell in our offices, well they end up on packages. That is one of the great advantages to begin a manul office. We can get rid of the junk stamps we can't sell. The bad part is it takes up stampstock until they are gone. I did notice that the stamps that were the best sellers were discountined. We are losing money but the stamps that people are buying you are doing away with!!! We can't even order the books of 10 anymore!!!
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