![]() Up from 50 cents, this latest increase is the largest single-year price hike in the history of the U.S. Since yesterday, a single Forever Stamp – suited for a first-class letter that weighs one ounce or less – costs 55 cents. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.Sending a letter just got pricier for Americans. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account (AMZN) and other online retailers, with items delivered in bulk to the post office nearest to the buyer’s home. The USPS handles final delivery of many packages shipped by Amazon Parcels and packages are where the Postal Service is really making its money today. ![]() As recently as 2011, about half of postal revenue came from First-Class mail, with 17% from individual letters. Then there were another 41 million pieces of what the USPS generously calls “marketing mail,” and most consumers know as junk mail.Įven though senders of that marketing mail pay a much lower rate, the sector brought in $9 billion last year, compared to only $7.4 billion for individual First-Class letters, and $13.5 billion for presorted First-Class mail.Īll in, First-Class mail accounted for only 30% of Postal Service revenue last year, with individual letters tallying less than 10%. There were 35.6 billion of those last year, or more than five per household per week. The number of individual First-Class letters doesn’t count most of the other mail jamming your mailbox, such as bank statements and other direct mail from businesses. The number of individual letters mailed last year fell 8.4% from the year prior, and is down 45% from where it was just a decade ago, in fiscal year 2011. People have found other ways to communicate - and to pay their bills - than putting a stamp and an envelope and dropping it in a mailbox. But that comes to only about two pieces of mail per US household per week. ![]() Last year 13.5 billion letters were mailed out. As a result, First-Class mail in general - and individual letters in particular - are far less important to the Postal Services’ revenue stream now than in years past. ![]() Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Imagesīiden signs US Postal Service reform bill into lawīut the 2-cent hike won’t bring in much more money for the USPS for one reason: Americans aren’t sending nearly as much mail as they used to. “With the new prices, the Postal Service will continue to provide the lowest letter-mail postage rates in the industrialized world and offer a great value in shipping.”Ī postman drives a United States Postal service (USPS) mail delivery truck through Washington, DC on August 13, 2021. “As inflation and increased operating expenses continue, these price adjustments will help with the implementation of the Delivering for America plan,” the USPS said in a statement, referring to its plan to invest $40 billion in upgrading its infrastructure. ![]() Metered mail went up 4 cents, or 7.5% sending a postcard (remember those?) now costs 44 cents, a 10-cent hike and overweight First-Class mail will increase 20%, to 24 cents per additional ounce. A price hike that modest seems almost quaint given that overall consumer prices are up 9.1% year over year, the fastest pace in 40 years.įirst-Class mail prices are up about 6.5% overall following the latest hikes. That raises the cost of mailing a first-class letter by 3.4%, to 60 cents - unless you still have a bunch of “forever stamps” that you bought at a lower price. Maybe this counts as good news in a time of painful price increases for necessities such as food, fuel and housing: The cost of a US postage stamp just increased by a mere 2 cents. ![]()
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