@McTag,
Hmmm. Still confuse about the usage to these 2. Here I can show u an explanation from another website .
Does this help?
The post office raises the price of a U.S postage stamp from $1.50 to $1.75. Without details, a spokesperson for the post office announces the fact like this. "The price of the stamp has been increased."
When we hear or read the announcement in our present, we learn of one decision made in the past which flows right into our present and impacts us now.
When I hear of this, I think back to all the other times I have experienced these single event price increases happening many times over the course of my lifetime, from my past to my present, I react by saying
"The price of a postage stamp has been increasing ever since I can remember." So yes it indicates a continuing, a repeating pattern.