Peel and weep: Stamps costing 2 cents more Monday (first-class 44 cents stamp, May 11)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/9/09 | Randolph E. Schmid - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – Peel it and weep: It'll cost an extra 2 cents to mail a letter starting Monday.

The price of a first-class stamp will climb to 44 cents, though people who planned ahead and stocked up on Forever stamps will still be paying the lower rate.

It's the third year in a row that rates have gone up in May under a new system that allows annual increases as long as they don't exceed the rate of inflation for the year before.

[ken21]

the usps union is incompetent.

[TCats]

You mean Inflation was over 5% last Year? I thought it was somewhere in the two’s.

[Petronski]

Is 44 cents too much for you?

Deliver it yourself.

[pnh102]

People still mail stuff?

[kenth]

I’ll send even less mail than I do now.

[BunnySlippers]

Now that I bank by mail, I never buy stamps.

[tflabo]

Just another inept government agency raking in more $$ and piling up more debt! At least in previous decades there was some level of sanity in running the USPS.

[BunnySlippers]

I have heard the figures for the cost for the USPS every time the cost of gas goes up a penny. Amazingly high!.

[Maurice Tift]

  Now that I bank by mail, I never buy stamps.

  What's a stamp?

[org.whodat]

They need the money to buy some-more 100,000 dollar homes for a million. Why work if you can steal it.

[buccaneer81]

What are “stamps?”

[BunnySlippers]

I used to buy tons of them. Now I realize they will be a part of my estate ...

[rawcatslyentist]

The United States Postal Service® Previews Simpsons® Stamps

No govt media complex here, move along.

[Big Giant Head]

Just another inept government agency raking in more $$ and piling up more debt! At least in previous decades there was some level of sanity in running the USPS.

Quick: Name another legitimate function of Government that is cutting back, cutting jobs while increasing efficiency.

[GoldStandard]

People still mail stuff?

Last I checked, you can't e-mail a physical object like a package.

[pnh102]

Last I checked, you can't e-mail a physical object like a package.

But in that department, the USPS does face competition from UPS, FedEx and others. At least there prices are not that bad.

[ctdonath2]

Gotta admit that mailing a letter is a darn good deal: from your front door to anywhere in the country in 1-3 days for less than two quarters.

That said, thanks to increases I only use about 5 stamps a year. Rates went up one year and I switched almost exclusively to electronic communications.

[Ciexyz]

I hand-deliver as often as possible.

[ltrman61]

And when gas jumps 10 cents in a day, you post complaints about the inept oil companies I assume.