[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.

[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?”

[rawcatslyentist]

The United States Postal Service® Previews Simpsons® Stamps

No govt media complex here, move along.

[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.

[SkyDancer]

Who writes letters anymore other than the occasional b’day card and Mother’s Day cards ... Christmas???? Hanukkah? ... most people do their bill paying on-line now ....

[Graybeard58]

Peel and weep: Stamps costing 2 cents more Monday

Still a bargain.

[Danae]

It now costs significantly less to drive across town and deliver bills by hand.

Go figure. Oh and No junk mail.

[Zman516]

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.

Clever idea, the "forever" stamps. Now they can jack up the cost anytime they want and nobody will really bitch about it. In fact, as you suggest, it'll encourage people to buy more to beat the price increases.