Postal Rates Going Up AGAIN

[NeverNeverland]

Effective May 14, first class stamps will be .42.
for more info and rates....

http://www.usps.com/ratecase/welcome.htm

[Villains Fan]

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Of course they are, I just bought a whole page of stamps

[migo]

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Meh. It'll continue. Sucks, but it will..



thanks for the information!!!

[figment1986]

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ledgend says something about them adding a new stamp that will forever seal in the price...

i bet its limited and will disappear when they raise price again next year, darn gas prices...

[SCUBAbe]

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omg...I just used my last 37 cent stamp. I can't keep up with all the price hikes on stamps...all my penny stamps are gone now also. I'm really glad I rarely use stamps.

[tiggerfan]

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You know its bad when they don't even bother with printing the prices on the new stamps anymore

[I Heart Disneyland]

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I think there are Star Wars stamps coming out soon....am I wrong?

[Brain Toad]

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That is the perfect price for a stamp, they should never raise it unless risk the universe and everything collapsing or something.

[PirateMickey]

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Typical gov't...

Raise the prices, while the service continues a downward spiral.

Our mail rarely makes it to our house by 5 pm, and isn't even delivered some days!

Whatever happened to the old saying, "neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow..."???

I still recall the days when the mail was delivered twice a day. And a stamp only cost about a dime!!!

Now they can barely do it once a day and will be charging over 40 cents!

Where's the sanity???

[LuvsLilo]

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Ugh... it looks like my husband is going to win the "snail mail vs pay bills online" debate afterall. I just bought a roll of stamps at Costco too. :rant:

[I Heart Disneyland]

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I work for a bank, and honestly, it's safer to pay online than have your checks with all of your personal information on them, floating around in the mail.

[Jazzman]

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I always laugh when people get irate over the price of a stamp. You can write a letter, fold it up and put it in an envelope, then have someone pick it up in front of your house and it gets delivered right to someone else's house clear across the country, and yet thirty seven cents, or forty, or even fifty is too expensive? To have something hand delivered across the entire country? That's funny.

[goofygoof]

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I seriously can't remember the last time I used a stamp! I usually pay my bills online, actually, all of them! But with the unnecessary increase in gas prices, regardless of multi-billion dollar QUARTERLY profits, the USPS has some increased operational costs, plus payroll, competition of email, online bill paying, etc... can't really fault them that much for increasing the price of the stamp!

[sir clinksalot]

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We don't mail too much stuff. A book of stamps will generally last us 2 months or more. (We are still using Valentine's stamps, and have about 1/2 the sheet left)

I just don't like that it's .37, .42. Just make it .45 and be done with it.

[Villains Fan]

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ledgend says something about them adding a new stamp that will forever seal in the price...

i bet its limited and will disappear when they raise price again next year, darn gas prices...

Yes, the Post Office is coming out with a "forever" stamp in May. There is no price showing and can be used forever, no matter how much the cost of postage increases. But, when you go to buy them, they will be sold at whatever the price of postage is at during that time.

[Darkbeer]

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Sigh, the postcard postage is going up 2 cents, that is going to effect the folks sending in postcards in the 15 months of 1.25 million prizes contest.....

[Disneyland Daddy]

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We don't mail too much stuff. A book of stamps will generally last us 2 months or more. (We are still using Valentine's stamps, and have about 1/2 the sheet left)

I just don't like that it's .37, .42. Just make it .45 and be done with it.

Good point.

And really, if you think about it, 42 cents to have something delivered is really not bad at all.....

[Ginarella]

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I think there are Star Wars stamps coming out soon....am I wrong?

I don't know about that but I know new Disney stamps will be out this August.

[SpookyBear]

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I don't know about that but I know new Disney stamps will be out this August.

There will be Disney and Star Wars stamps coming. We're actually discussing the upcoming Star Wars stamps and the R2-D2 mailboxes in this thread:

http://www.micechat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57619

And I don't know about anyone else, but 42 cents is not bad for the service they offer. Especially when you consider how surprisingly accurate and efficient they are.

[KISSman]

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Sigh, the postcard postage is going up 2 cents, that is going to effect the folks sending in postcards in the 15 months of 1.25 million prizes contest.....

I'm glad you noted this 2-cent increase or I might have not known. I have a small stack of postcards that I may or may not have gotten through sending by that date.

Ugh... these postal increases seem to happen more and more frequently.