Posted on 01/27/2019 5:03:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The price of Forever stamps is increasing by 10 percent, and will go from 50 cents to 55 cents, according to a United States Postal Service press release.
The First-Class Mail Forever stamp price will take effect Jan. 27, the federal agency said. NBC Bay Area reports that the change is the biggest jump in the history of the USPS.
Although the price is increasing, old Forever stamps remain valid for mailing a letter regardless of how much the price changes.
The price change will offset a $4 billion loss the federal agency experienced in 2018. According to NBC Bay Area, USPS said sales from shipping and packages soared 10 percent last year but there was an overall decline in revenue due to rising pay and higher transportation costs.
The first Forever stamp was issued in 2007 for 41 cents. In November, USPS announced that dancer Gregory Hines, singer Marvin Gaye and a “Hearts Blossom” stamp would be added to the Forever collection for 2019.
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One of the biggest pains-in-the-neck I ever worked with, later went on to sell time shares. Did rather well at it.
Back in 2001 while working at the Fed Ex hub in Memphis: the USPS started sending a lot of its mail via Fed Ex. Big yellow bags with a plastic container full of envelopes in each bag would come through the sort. Apparently the USPS had/has a multi-million dollar/ multi-year deal with Fed Ex to ship their mail across the country.
Can anyone verify this?
I’m a Luddite. I mail checks to pay my bills and keep a paper trail of everything. I distrust having any more financial information than necessary on the computer. It’s served me very well. The cost of postage has become an issue, though.
The post office and military are the only thing in the constitution that the federal government should operate. I wish we could get rid of everything else.
What if I need it delivered sooner than “forever”?
Time shares have had their day in the sun. Nowadays I hear radio commercials from companies offering to help owners sell them. Your “co-worker” apparently got in on the rising side of the curve.
While almost everyone on here got on just to say something like, “who cares, I don’t use stamps”.
There are SOME OF US who does care!
I for one still mails off my bills every month. I write out each one so I can ensure to read each one. And I do NOT want my money to be ‘automatically deducted’ each month. Heck, one utility still can’t get my name correct. Like I am really going to let them take out money.
I want total control over my own money. And will NOT give into ‘convenience’ and saving a couple bucks for a reason to lose that control.
Just about all of my bill pay is by electronic transfer. I can tell that on my bank's site they have a shorter ship time than the mailed ones.
I got one over on the old USPS about two years ago. Was a few days before Mother’s Day...I was getting ready to fly back to Tennessee from New Mexico (ELP) and decided to send mom a mother’s day card from New Mexico.
I walked in the post office in Artesia, NM, selected a mother’s day card from the card rack, signed it, placed in envelop and walked up to the counter. Lady asked if she could help me and I said yes, need to post this and send it on it’s way. I paid the $0.49 and departed.
Halfway to El Paso, I realized I forgot to purchase the actual card.
Computers do make mistakes. And so do people. That paper trail is ESSENTIAL. I totally agree. Hard to believe so many trust electronics as if they can never fail or be wrong.
I ordered online last week...They had both .55 and .50
They might have some .50 Forever left now...
There were notices
There were notices
Actually I have recently read articles noting that using the mail for private communications is increasing...don’t have hacking, accidental sending to entire mailbox, company watching your computer time, etc.
When one of my daughters was about 14 she and her friends would constantly send them eachother cards and notes.
They would address it to THEMSELVES and put the friends name as the return address.
NO STAMP.
It would then be returned to the return addressee-—the friend,for lack of postage.
They thought it was quite funny.
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I don't do anything by regular mail anymore. Too slow. I live in the country so just getting to the post office is a pain. Doing it digitally saves time and money. So much easier.
It's served me very well.
And the cost postage is not an issue for me at all.
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