Why does it cost the same amount of money to send a letter to Alaska as it does to send it to the next county?
474651
Because the U.S. Postal service is a Federal Agency.  They set standard prices for different types of mail regardless of where they are being sent within the United States.  Most private mailing companies such as UPS also have standard charges throughout the country.
85477
It could be that fewer cities are sorting mail and have to travel further to a hub.  My intown mail goes to the next city (35 miles away) and then comes back to be delivered.  My hometown used to have a sorting station and now sends it 45 miles away.  It also could be that less people are using the post office, so the post office is hiring less carriers to compensate.
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I had a land contract in Alaska and the monthly payment and due dates were "set" by myself and the seller of the house.  We just agreed to a price, and put that price and a lot of other things into a contract we both signed and had notarized.\n\nCheck your state's laws about Land contracts.  It should be somewhere within your States Government web site.
585787
Good question!  Not that I know for sure, but I've heard the zip gets it to the right city (or part of the city), and the +4 gets it to the right individual mailman, so maybe it does get there faster.  I think a controlled experiment is in order!
54130
Send me $5 for the answer....\n\n\nSeriously, its a scam.  You send money, they send you directions for doing exactly what they are doing.  It used to be the "Stuff the Envelope" scam, but snail mail is out.
649647
I suspect you are complaining of merchant sites that will not deal with Canadians. This is not a bias but a business decision. I used to live in Alaska and had the same problem as many merchants did not want to deal with Alaska. With a little searching, I usually could find someone who would ship to Alaska but of course the shipping costs were higher. If the merchant provides flat rate shipping, shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada can cause them to loose money and they do not feel that offering an alternative is worth their time and effort.
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All the same!\n\nFor people who are making fun of those who claim everything is about oil. There's also this little fact:\n\nThe Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person. \n\nIn 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments. \n\nAlaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production. \nSource(s):\nhttp://www.earthrights.net/docs/oilrent.... \n\nOil is just 1 of thousands of commodities, with all the thousands of commidities in your state why aren't you getting paid?\n\nWith feds resources why can't feds pay 50 times better than Alaska?\n\nKuwait pays this way $58,000 y no rent, utilities, phone, hospital bills\nDubia pays this way\nNorway I've heard has a similar system\nI hear Nigeria is working on doing this\n\nHOW FAR WILL YOU, YOUR KIDS, AND GRANDCHILDREN GET LEFT BEHIND IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE IF THE US DOES START A SYSTEM OF THIS KIND FOR THE US PEOPLE?\n\nARE WE TO BE PAUPER THIRD CLASS WORLD CITIZENS WHEN YOUR GRANDCHILDREN START TO WORK?\n\nDO WE SLIDE FROM THE RICHEST NATION TO THE POOREST IN YOUR LIFETIME BECAUSE YOU LACK THE COURAGE, NERVE, OR BACKBONE TO TAKE ACTION NOW WHEN IT'S NEEDED?\n\nVOTE! VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT DEMS OR REPS!\nTHEY ARE IN POWER AND HAVE THE CONTROL THEY MUST BEAR ALL THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR MISMANAGEMENT!
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It means that the mail is tracked all the way to the person who recieves it.  And it has to be signed for when delivered.  It costs more than regular mail.  Yes, just go to the PO and ask for it, they'll have a label for you to fill out.
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For a standard letter, you will only need a first class stamp.  There is no difference from sending to an APO than sending to say New York.\n\nIf you ever need to send a package, you will need a small customs form on the package (the PO has them and knows what to do with them).  The pricing should not be different but keep in mind that Priority Mail is the fastest way for APO packages.  All other methods can take awhile as they go on a space available basis.\n\nI hope this helps.
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NO TAX IS THE ONLY FAIR WAY!\n\n\nThe Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person. \n\nIn 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments. \n\nAlaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production. \nSource(s):
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Depends on the State.  In NY they mail it but you have to go to a web site every week and complete a questionnaire or they won't send it.
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Beginning January 8th, it will cost 39 cents to mail a letter up to one ounce anywhere in the U.S.\n\nUntil that date it is 37 cents.
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That's actually a few questions. Let me see if I can sort out some of them for you.\nPlease keep in mind that I am not the law and all I am about to say is my best guess after 25 years of living here.\nIn Alaska there are several definitions of Resident.It varies depending on what you want to do.\n Register to vote, 6 months.\n Hunt or fish, 1 calender year. \nApply for the Alaska PFD 1 year.\nApply for State land lotteries 1 year.\nThey are all a bit different so a person needs to check with the appropriate agency.\n\nRemote Land Parcels are available and costs vary.I'm pretty sure the residency requirement is 1 year. None that I'm aware of are free even if you apply and are selected.\nhttp://www.dnr.state.ak.us/mlw/landsale/\n\nI don't know anything about not paying taxes if you agree to move here and develop a parcel but anything is possible.\nWhile there currently is no state income tax(the politicos are trying to change this as I type) we still pay taxes on about everything else. i.e. personal and real property,gas,hunting fishing ect.. Sales tax varies by community just like every place else.\n\nTry to keep in mind that there are reasons that Alaska is the largest state in the union and has fewer residents than most small cities in the lower 48.About 600,000 people live here total. Mostly that reason is COLD UNIHABITABLE ACRES millions of them. \nIf you look at a AK map it's essy to see where most people live. And to live there you have to do ALL of the same things you do anywhere else. Except maybe put up with as many neighbors.\nI hope that helps. I know it doesn't answer all of your questions but if you go to the state link below they should be able to help you with the rest.\n\nD
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There is no state income nor any state sales tax in Alaska (some localities have a sales tax though).  We put a royality on pumped oil instead.  Some of that money goes into a "Permenant Fund" and dividends ("PFD"s) go out to state residents.  \n\nYou have to have been here for the previous calendar year (or been born in the last calender year) to receive it in October.  This year it was $1106.96 to every man, woman and child.  Just for taking up space.  Not surprisingly, when getting paid to just take up space, that is what some people do.\n\nI'd rather it was used for education and infrastructure, but free money is such a popular concept, it is political sacred and will never go away.\n\nThere was homesteading in Alaska decades ago and it really took off after WWII.  Guys who found it too crowded in North Dakota passed through during the war and wanted to come back.  No longer the case, for many years.  But it lives on in the popular imagination and in various internet /marketting scams.\n\nI do know people who bought 5 forested acres far back on a dirt road for $3,000 or so.  So I suppose there is some truth in the combined concept: Take the free money and use it buy cheap land.  And, if you don't mind a snowy 500-foot dirt-road driveway, shitting in an outhouse at -30F, and heating with wood you cut and split all by yourself, you can live on that land pretty cheapily.  I know people who do that to, but they usually stop when they 1) grow up around age 35 or 2) get/want a girlfriend.  But some keep at it.\n\nHope that helps.
200736
Alaska was 'bought' by the US, from Russia, I guess for less than $7.2 million.And that was way back in 1867 !!\n\nI guess the http links pasted here are not working....try out Yahoo search or Google
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That's going to depend on how close to a major metropolitan area each point is.  \n\nIf you're sending it from, say, downtown Jackson to downtown Columbia, I'd guess two days for first class mail.  But if you're sending from, say, Starkville to Gaffney, it might take a few days longer.
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Because you would be addressing the BODY of congress and all the politicians. You have to mail the individual congressman,which you can do by  zip code of the area the congressman represents