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Stamp Prices Rising May 12
New stamp prices go into effect starting May 12. Here's the new prices you'll be paying for postage:
First-Class Mail letter (1 oz.) $0.42
First-Class Mail letter (2 oz.) $0.59
Postcard $0.27
First-Class Mail large envelope (2 oz.) $1.00
Certified Mail $2.70
First-Class Mail International to Canada and Mexico (1 oz.) $0.72
First-Class Mail International to all other countries (1 oz.) $0.94 -
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Post Office Offers Refund In Stamps After Delivering Priority Mail Package Five Weeks Late
"I wanted to let you and my fellow readers know about the agonizing experience I had with the US postal service recently. They didn't quite lose my "2 to 3 day" Priority Mail package, but inexplicably shipped it back and forth across the country for over 5 weeks, missing Christmas by over a week, and then told me I did not deserve a refund!" More » -
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USPS Ties Stamp Rate Hikes To Inflation
The US Postal Service adopted plans to always keep stamp price increases at or below the rate of inflation. The stamp hikes will be annual and capped by the consumer-price index, replacing the old system of periodic and steep increases. The USPS had the right to still do one more hike under the previous rule, but opted to go for the inflation-indexed approach ahead of schedule. Those clever Forever Stamps which were to remain valid forever, will still be forever valid.
Postal Pricing Plan to Conform With Inflation [WSJ]
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Don't Buy Forever Stamps As An "Investment"
By law, "Forever Stamps" won't save you any money if you're planning on hoarding them for all eternity, says Slate. More » -
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USPS Rate Hike: The Forever Stamp
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:
A new "forever" stamp — good for mailing a letter no matter how much rates go up — was recommended Monday by the independent Postal Regulatory Commission. A forever stamp would not carry a denomination, but would sell for whatever the first-class rate was at the time.
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The Colonel Sanders Stamp of Approval
In 1975, Kentucky Fried Chicken sued its founder and mascot Colonel Sanders for libel after he called KFC's gravy "sludge" and labeled their mashed potatoes "wallpaper paste." We really had no idea the Colonel was so cool. More » -
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US Post Office To Issue Forever Stamps
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. More »
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