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.”
The bigger issue is how many rural areas would simply not be served by these services because it wouldn’t be profitable to do so.
That’s the real reason keeping the USPS is so imperative. In the hands of private equity, a concerning number of communities would simply not have a viable solution for non-commercial shipping.