usps
The USPS is raising stamp prices in May, so stock up on your "Forever Stamps" before the hike. Starting May 11, the price for a first-class mail stamp will go from $0.42 to $0.44.
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Comcastic!
It could be worse; they could have just charged him the difference and called it a day. Full Comcastic Check inside. [
Thanks David!]
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security
Geoff's wife tried to mail a padded envelope full of love to his mom for Mother's Day, but the post office returned it to Geoff's house the next day with the above label, which says the item could not be delivered due to "heightened security requirements." That's all well and good, but what Geoff wants to know is, if this envelope is potentially dangerous,
why would you bring it to the person named on the return address?
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forever stamp
To ease the blow of postal rates going up two cents, the
USPS is introducing a new stamp that will always pay the postal rate, no matter when you use it.
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usps
The USPS has approved a rate hike from $.39 to $.41 cents for a first class letter. They've also approved the "
Forever Stamp" a stamp that does not lose its value is the postage rate changes. From the USPS:
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usps
The USPS wants to raise the rate of first-class stamps $.02 to $.41, and while they're at it, they'd like to introduce the "Forever Stamp." From BusinessWeek:
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postage
We have a sweet old gummy granny who occasionally sends us cute little letters wrought in exquisite lilac penmanship, filling us in on her knitting adventures or about the music box she just found at the church sale. Each one of these letters usually arrives emblazoned with a five cent stamp from 1967, followed by a nearly endless postage ellipsis of thirty-four penny stamps, each one clearly issued in a separate year. The supposed value of the postage our grandmother's withered tongue affixed to the envelope? Thirty nine cents. Actual inflationary value? Probably a million dollars.
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Consumerist
