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by Debra J. Mitchell \u2013 United States Postal Service<\/strong><\/em> Beginning on January 27, the cost of a one-ounce, First-Class postage stamp will increase by one penny, to 46 cents.\u00a0 The new 46 cent Forever stamps will allow customers to mail letters to any location in the United States. Forever stamps are<\/p>\n always good for mailing a one-ounce letter anytime in the future regardless of price changes.<\/p>\n Procrastinators who haven\u2019t sent their annual holiday greetings will want to stock up on Forever stamps at the 45 cent rate prior to the rate change.<\/p>\n The Postal Service will also introduce a First-Class Mail Global Forever Stamp. The new stamp will allow customers to mail \u00a0letters anywhere in the world for one set price of $1.10.<\/p>\n Highlights of the new single-piece First-Class Mail pricing include:<\/p>\n \u2022 Letters (1oz.) \u2013 1-cent increase to 46 cents<\/p>\n \u2022 Letters additional ounces \u2013 unchanged at 20 cents<\/p>\n \u2022 Letters to all international destinations (1oz.) – $1.10<\/p>\n \u2022 Postcards \u2013 1-cent increase to 33 cents<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Prices for all products (Mailing and Shipping services) will increase by 4-percent, but prices for Mailing Services, such as regular letters and advertising matter, will increase only 2.6-percent.<\/p>\n Shipping Services<\/p>\n Several new Shipping Services products will be available in January. Free tracking will be offered to all competitive packages, including retail Priority Mail and Parcel Post (recently renamed Standard Post).\u00a0 Customers shipping Critical Mail letters and large envelopes will have the option of receiving a signature upon delivery as part of the service offering.<\/p>\n A large variety of flat-rate boxes and envelopes for Express Mail and Priority Mail, including the padded and legal-sized flat rate envelopes will continue to be offered by the Postal Service.\u00a0 New domestic retail pricing for Priority Mail Flat Rate products include:<\/p>\n \u2022 Small box \u2013 $5.80<\/p>\n \u2022 Medium box \u2013 $12.35<\/p>\n \u2022 Large box \u2013 $16.85<\/p>\n \u2022 Large APO\/FPO box \u2013 $14.85<\/p>\n \u2022 Regular envelope \u2013 $5.60<\/p>\n The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Debra J. Mitchell \u2013 United States Postal Service Special to the Lehigh Acres \u00a0Gazette Beginning on January 27, the cost of a one-ounce, First-Class postage stamp will increase… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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