The price to ship your letters and packages is going up in the new year.
Starting Jan. 21, 2024, the price for a First-Class Forever U.S. Postage Stamp will increase from 66 cents to 68 cents, according to the U.S. Postal Service.
The prices for domestic postcard stamps will also increase by two cents from 51 cents to 53 cents and international postcards will increase from $1.50 to $1.55.
In addition to stamp prices increasing, the price to send priority mail and other postal services will also increase on Jan. 21.
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The Postal Service says its prices “remain among the most affordable in the world” and would “offer a great value in shipping.”
A lot of European countries don’t have a government post system. Germany privatized theirs in 1995, probably due to an EU directive requiring member states to “fully open the postal sector to competition”. Some other countries did the same. But I think every country is served by some postal system; I wasn’t able to find anyone saying any country had none at all (except South Sudan for a brief time, but that’s to be expected and has since changed).