3 Things You Need To Know: UPS Price Increase

United States Postal Service has announced that it will raise its prices in the new year.

PG County is saying that scammers are using the deputy office to scam people.

Big Baby news coming out from National Zoo, the Elephant is prego!!!

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the city that changes the world.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Peers Rose with three things you need.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
To know for you Tuesday Rose that you got for us.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
So, the United States Postal Service is announcing plans to
raise it's shipping prices in the NAR. I know customers
can expect a six point six percent increase for a
Priority mail, five point one percent for Priority Mail Express,
seven point eight for a ups round advantage, and six
percent four parcels Select.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Not great.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
The adjustments have improved by the Board of Governors and
will go into effect on January eighteenth. Now it's set
by market conditions. I guess that's how they determine the pricing.
I don't know. I don't love when prices go up
on anything, but there you go. The Prince Church's County
Sheriff's Office says scammers are stealing thousands of dollars by
impersonating deputies.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
That's scary.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hate that the Sheriff's office issued a warning about those
scams on social media, and these gammers are using real
names to make it seem like a deputy is calling
about outstanding warrants for failing to appear in court. The
victims are then pressured to make an immediate payment you
and gift cards are a bitcoin. It's the same thing
we kind of see all the time, but the holiday
season is a really really popular time for these scammers

(01:08):
to pop off, so be extra vigilant. The Sharf's office
says the scammers have stolen more than twelve thousand dollars
in the last week. Like that, and anyone who receives
such a caution hang up and call the Sheriff's office immediately.
So make sure you tell family, like especially older family,
to watch out for these There's a really big baby
news coming out of the National Zoo that's made me

(01:28):
so happy. The Attraction announced that their twelve year old
Asian elephant, nie Lynn, is about to become a first
time bomb mydable. So she is due sometime between January
and early March. Elephant pregnancies last for a very long
time eighteen twenty two months, so should be sometime next year.

(01:48):
The National Zoo plans to provide regular updates on her
through their website social media accounts. But there are fewer
than fifty thousand endangered elephants left in the world, so
very very big news, very exciting. I wrote, those are
the three things you need to know today.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Real quick too. They put this out black Friday is Friday,
which is crazy. I kind of like that also doesn't
have the last it used to. But they put out
the biggest scams of Black Friday to fall for too,
including the gift card scams, which is, don't buy gift
cards through third party websites because they could be drained
or empty or partially used. Absolutely, which makes sense. I

(02:23):
don't think you should. The social media scams, everything from
fake ads, direct messages and counter offit products and fraudulent sites. Sure.
I think the rule thumb is always if it seems
like it's too good of a deal, it probably sure is. Yeah.
I know that sounds dumb, but I'd almost rather pay
more and know that it's real than like this could
be good so that you're like all stressed out. Then
you might get screwed over. Yeah, because that's the thing too.

(02:45):
It's like, okay, see if you buy something and it's
a skate a fake site, you don't get the product,
but also they had your credit card information. Yeah, so
like a whole thing. Yeah. Online shopping scams fake real
to fake real retail websites are easy to fall forwarding
major sales stay with hotels. Dude. If you google like
Hilton Dallas, it'll be like a secondary site that pops
up first. Yeah, which how that's legal. Isn't understand how

(03:07):
that happens. I don't know how that's you're allowed to
do that, because I've had that happened to me and
I'm like, wait, this isn't right. Yeah. So basically, Sauce
could make a travel site and then have you booked
through her to book through Hilton the actual site, but
it looks like close enough to if I want to
put to Conna. The first time I actually booked through
a secondary site and not the resort, I thought it
was screwed, but it looked exactly like the resort has

(03:28):
photos wild Yeah. Postation delivery scams, so the getting the
text of like, hey we tried deliver something but you
weren't there. Yeah, and then you click the link and
then it oh yeah dude, it gives you something.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Those are scary. Yeah yeah, so be careful. Just you know,
I think vigilant.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I think it goes back to if you're a good person,
you'd never do that to somebody. You would expect it
to happen. To you. Yeah, so it's it's not great,
but us we're free, baby, free and real, real Bring.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
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