The United States Postal Service announces price changes which will take effect Jan. 21. The new prices include a one cent increase in the price of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp from 49 cents to 50 cents.
Postcard stamps and metered letters would also have a one cent increase.
Priority Mail Flat Rate Retail price changes are:
• Letters (1 ounce): 49 cents (current), 50 cents (new)
• Letters (additional ounces): 21 cents (no change from current price)
• Letters (metered): 46 cents (current), 47 cents (new)
• Outbound international letters (1 ounce): $1.15 (no change from current price)
• Domestic postcard stamps: 34 cents (current), 35 cents (new)
• Small flat-rate box: $7.15 (current), $7.20 (new)
• Medium flat-rate box: $13.60 (current), $13.65 (new)
• Large flat-rate box: $18.85 (current), $18.90 (new)
• Army/Air Post Office and Fleet Post Office large flat-rate box: $17.35 (current), $17.40 (new)
• Regular flat-rate envelope: $6.65 (current), $6.70 (new)
• Legal flat-rate envelope: $6.95 (current), $7 (new)
• Padded flat-rate envelope: $7.20 (current), $7.25 (new)
For the convience of its customers, the post office is listing this year’s holiday closures for the USPS:
Feb. 19 – Presidents Day
May 28 – Memorial Day
July 4 – Independence Day
Sept. 3 – Labor Day
Oct. 8 – Columbus Day
Nov. 12 – Veterans Day
Nov. 22 – Thanksgiving
Dec. 25 – Christmas