US Postage Rates to Increase in May
The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced today that new postage rates will go into effect on May 11, 2009. The new rates will be:
Although this relatively modest increase will not present a hardship to most businesses, direct mail companies and magazine publishers take a hard hit, given the amount of items that they mail each year.
So that you may plan for the future, rate increases are now occurring annually, each May, and are tied to the CPI.
Letter, first ounce: $0.44To make sure that you don’t end up with extra 42 cent stamps, buy and use the “Forever Stamps” instead. Regardless of when you purchase them, they can be used to mail 1-ounce letters after the rate hike, without adding additional postage.
Large envelope, first ounce: $0.88
Additional ounces: $0.17 (this did not change!)
Postcard: $0.28
Although this relatively modest increase will not present a hardship to most businesses, direct mail companies and magazine publishers take a hard hit, given the amount of items that they mail each year.
So that you may plan for the future, rate increases are now occurring annually, each May, and are tied to the CPI.
Posted by Peter DeHaan at 2/11/2009 4:21 PM 
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Categories: Publishing, Marketing, Business
Tags: USPS postage rates Peter DeHaan blog author Peter DeHaan Peter DeHaan Musings Musings of Peter DeHaan
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