SANATOGA PA – You won’t be able to walk Sunday (Jan. 22, 2012) up to the postal counter inside the Sanatoga Thriftway on East High Street and order a book of stamps. Although the store will be open for business, its postal unit is closed for the day. When you can do business there, though, those stamps will cost you more.
The U.S. Postal Service is raising first-class mail pricing Sunday for the first time in more than two and a half years. First-class, also known as “Forever,” stamps will cost a penny more, up from 44 cents to 45 cents to mail a letter weighing one ounce.
The price of additional ounces, 20 cents per, remains unchanged. Postcards jump up 3 cents, from 29 to 32 cents each. Letters to Canada or Mexico will cost a nickle more to mail, increasing to 85 cents. And letters bound for other international destinations will rise 7 cents to $1.05, the Postal Service said.
Prices also will change for other mailing services, including standard mail, periodicals, package services and extra services. Its announcement does not affect Express Mail and Priority Mail prices.
While actual percentage price increases for various products and services varies, the overall average price increase across all mailing services is capped by law at 2.1 percent, the calculated rate of inflation based on the Consumer Price Index. That’s “small and is needed to help address our current financial crisis,” Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe claimed. “We continue to take actions within our control to increase revenue in other ways, and to aggressively cut costs.”
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[...] At Thriftway Post Counter And Elsewhere, Prices Climb You can’t buy stamps Sunday at the postal counter in Thriftway on East High Street in Sanatoga; it will be closed, as usual. But prices to mail first-class items there – or anywhere else, for that matter – are rising by between 1 and 7 cents … depending on where you send a letter or postcard. [...]