Attached and below is an article on upcoming postal price changes effective January 22. Thank you for the opportunity to share this information with your readers.
USPS Price Changes Coming January 22
Effective January 22, it will cost just a penny more to mail letters to any location in the United States, the first price change for First-Class Mail stamps in more than two and a half years.
Highlights of the new single-piece First-Class Mail pricing include:
- Letters (1 oz.) – 1-cent increase to 45 cents
- Letters additional ounces – unchanged at 20 cents
- Postcards – 3-cent increase to 32 cents
- Letters to Canada or Mexico (1 oz.) – 5-cent increase to 85 cents.
- Letters to other international destinations – 7-cent increase to $1.05
Prices also will change for other mailing services, including Standard Mail, Periodicals, Package Services and Extra Services. More information on the new pricing is available at:
http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2011/pr11_factsht_pricechng_1018.pdf
Also starting January 22, postal customers will be able ship a box for overnight delivery anywhere in the country for one price regardless of weight (up to 70 lbs). The Express Mail Flat Rate Box, priced at $39.95 for domestic mailing, will be available for customers who need overnight service for items larger than what can be placed in an Express Mail Flat Rate Envelope. The new retail price for the Express Mail Flat Rate Envelope is $18.95.
New domestic retail pricing for Priority Mail Flat Rate products include:
- Small box — $5.35
- Medium box — $11.35
- Large box — $15.45
- Large APO/FPO/DPO box — $13.45
- Regular envelope — $5.15
- Legal-size and Padded envelope — $5.30
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Postal Facts: A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 150 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 29th in the 2010 Fortune 500. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency six consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
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