Price of stamps goes up this weekend

[babylonsister]

Price of stamps goes up this weekend
By Jennifer Liberto @CNNMoney January 24, 2014: 7:06 AM ET


It will cost you 3 cents more to mail a letter starting Jan. 26.



WASHINGTON (CNNMoney)
If you have letters or bills to mail, you might want to rush. Saturday is the last day when it will cost you 46 cents.

Starting Sunday, you'll pay more -- 49 cents.

The planned 3-cent hike is the largest increase in consumer postage prices in more than a decade for the U.S. Postal Service.

The price hike will affect millions, even though fewer Americans these days use snail mail to pay bills and keep in touch.

One way around it is buying Forever Stamps now and using them any time for first-class mail, the kind used by most consumers. Launched in 2007, Forever Stamps are always valid, no matter what people paid for them and even if prices go up in the future.

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http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/24/news/economy/postal-stamp-price-hike/

[snooper2]

1. They should just make it a dollar

[Politicalboi]

3. Yup

Worth EVERY penny, and it would help the post office. I ordered something from Home Depot, and it's coming UPS. Well UPS can't find me, so they rely on the post office to send me a note saying my address doesn't exist. How can a rag like UPS take over USPS when they can't find an address and the post office has NO trouble at all.

[REP]

2. Still a bargain and a great way to support Union jobs

I grow orchids for fun and often trade plants with friends. I use Priority Mail to ship them, and they always get where they're going in three days or less for very little money. I sent all my holiday packages Priority, and they all arrived on time. And I'm lucky enough to live very close to two excellent Post Offices.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Indeed. And if (shudder) it's ever sold, dismantled, privatized, good-bye to 50c letter mailing.

You think FedEx and UPS are gonna do that?