{"id":34530,"date":"2015-01-16T18:03:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34530"},"modified":"2015-01-16T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T23:03:23","slug":"us-postal-service-proposes-price-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/01\/us-postal-service-proposes-price-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"US Postal Service <br>Proposes Price Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34531\" title=\"mail box\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mail-box-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mail-box-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mail-box.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The U.S. Postal Service is proposing slight increases for mailing letters and postcards\u2014but leaving first-class &#8220;Forever&#8221; stamps at their present 49 cents.<\/p>\n<p>Under a filing with the Postal Regulatory Commission, letters to international destinations would rise from $1.15 to $1.20. Postcards would rise from 34 cents to 35 cents.<\/p>\n<p>The increases being proposed would become effective on April 26.<\/p>\n<p>On first-class mail, every ounce over 1 ounce would cost an additional 22 cents, up from 21 cents. And letters to all international destinations would go from $1.15 to $1.20.<\/p>\n<p>The filing does not affect Postal Service shipping products and services.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service says the price increases are the latest in a series of steps &#8220;to achieve financial stability.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Postal Service is proposing slight increases for mailing letters and postcards\u2014but leaving first-class &#8220;Forever&#8221; stamps at their present 49 cents. Under a filing with the Postal Regulatory Commission,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34530"}],"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=34530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}