posted on November 27, 2004 07:30:33 PM new
My brother, who works for the government, said that postage is going up to .47 after the first of the year. Is that true? If so will the shipping like priority go up also?
posted on November 27, 2004 07:39:24 PM new
I heard the proposal was for a 10% increase to $.41 .
Here's a news release: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/kqvradio/s_276651.html
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posted on November 27, 2004 08:20:05 PM new
Postage is not going up in 2005 - It takes about a year for the rate to get approved. I have read that the USPS is probably going to submit a rate increase to 41 cents, but not effective until 2006. I've heard increases of 1 lb priority rate to $4.25, but that is just speculation. We were hit really hard in 2001, hopefully it will be better. That is when a 17 ounce package went up from $3.50 to $5.75 overnight!
posted on November 27, 2004 09:08:07 PM new
They did announce that postage for a first class letter would go from 37 cents to 41 cents in January.
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posted on November 27, 2004 09:25:06 PM new
Libra - the announcement was that hey would start seeking the increase in early 2005, not that it would go into effect then.
Post Office May Try to Raise Price of Stamps
The U.S. Postal Service is expected to start seeking approval for a double-digit percentage increase in postage rates early next year, Wednesday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Such a rise would push the price of a first-class stamp to at least 41 cents -- and hurt consumers and businesses that already have shouldered three rounds of rate increases in the past few years.
First-class stamps have jumped 12% since early 2001, with the last increase of three cents to the current 37 cents coming in 2002. Higher rates also could make it tougher for the Postal Service to hold on to customers defecting to e-mail and online bill payments instead of first-class mail and to package-delivery rivals such as United Parcel Service Inc., Atlanta.
The unusually hefty size of the expected new rate increase stems partly from the demise of proposed legislation that would have allowed the post office to take advantage of about $3 billion a year in pension-fund savings resulting from a change in how it contributes to a federal retirement fund. The bill also would have freed the Postal Service from future pension payments to certain postal workers who served in the military.
Major mailers have been worried about a rate increase for months, and the postal bill's failure has them bracing for a large increase.
The higher rates aren't likely to take effect until early 2006. The Postal Service must submit its rate-increase request to the Postal Rate Commission, which has as many as 10 months to issue a recommended decision to the Postal Service's board of governors. The Postal Service has repeatedly pledged not to raise rates until 2006, but the lengthy rate-approval process is expected to trigger the request for an increase sometime in the spring.
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posted on November 28, 2004 02:12:44 AM new
I guess it is all in who's news paper you read. One I read said besure and mail your January Bills with your christmas cards as first class postage will go to 41 cents early next year. . The others I have read and what I heard on the radio said postage rates likely to go up on a first class letter to 41 cents early next year.
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