New Postage Rates Coming May 12

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by Alex

Design, I imagine. Seems like whenever I'm stuck in a slow line at the post office it is because someone wants 13 entire sheets of some design that is only available through an arduous 30 minutes search.

It's actually the only reason I buy stamps, period. If I'm going to take the time to mail something out the long way, particularly to a bunch of people, I want cool stamps versus boring stamps, hands down. The rest of the time, if something reeeeaaallly needs to be sent the slow way, I just hop over to the post office and have them do the sticker thingie. It's so infrequent, I do it just to remind myself where the post office is.

I've also picked up a couple of commemorative stamp sets for framing.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

AGAIN?

Originally Posted by figment1986

again... didnt they just do this like 6 months ago??

The last rate increase went into effect on May 17, 2007. See Alex's comments about the USPS being able to increase rates annually commensurate with inflation.

Originally Posted by Alex

Get used to it. The postal law passed in 2006 has the USPS update postal prices annually and in line with inflation. This is the first of those increases and you can probably expect them almost every year from here on out.