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Mon 2 Jan, 2006 06:24 pm
I seem to think it was supposed to go up come the New Year. Am I wrong? I hope so.
Jan 3 is the date for the new rate - first business day following the New Year Holiday. Mail not postmarked prior to Jan 3 '06 is subject to the rate increase. Effectively, that would make Sat, Dec 30, '05 the last day of the 37¢ rate.
timber, how much is the incease?
It'll be 39 cents to mail a first-class letter, see:
http://www.usps.com/communications/news/press/2005/pr05_097.htm and the effective date is January 8th.
Oh, NO! I just bought a whole book of 37 cent stamps. Will I still be able to use them tomorrow when I pay bills? or do I have to go back and buy a bunch of 2 cent stamps.
Thanks for posting the information. I didn't want to be the recipient of a "Return to Sender."
Letty wrote:Oh, NO! I just bought a whole book of 37 cent stamps. Will I still be able to use them tomorrow when I pay bills? or do I have to go back and buy a bunch of 2 cent stamps.
You'll be fine through January 7th, then you need to add 2 cents postage.
No prob, Cliff.
I just bought stamps too and thought I'd have to way-lay the mailman for 2 cent stamps since everything is set to go.
It looks like we have until the 8th though?
I too had heard the 3rd.
Thanks, Jes. I assumed the post office was closed today so I bought them at a one stop shop place.
And thank you, Cliff Hanger, for starting this thread.
My bad - you're right! I forgot about the grace period. Don't matter, though, I've had my 39¢ -ers for a while now :wink:
I bet that instead of a .39 stamp, they come up with an E or F, or whatever they are up to. The post office always seems to be the last to know.
Time to get some 2 cent stamps. I hate that.
Had to buy a whole bunch of .02c stamps - last year to prepare for the .39c.
Is there any combinatiion of .37c stamps to be used for weight or international?
Glad I caught this thread. I'd missed the rate increase news somehow.
Tom, used to be that a postal increase was a big event everyone knew about. The postal service has taken a back seat to the increasingly preferred form of payment which is online.
Of course, the increase is not good news, however, because the federal government is now competing with the private sector for business they're designing some bitchin' beautiful stamps.
(My horrorscope told me to look for cheerful things to think about...)
My cousin sent me a letter with a stamp that included a photo of one of her grandchildren. I don't know how she did it, but it was legit, and done through the P.O. somehow. And, of course, I've lost the email in which she told me how it was done.
Anyway, email has scooped up an awful lot of snail mail, while UPS & FedEx have taken over Parcel Post. Pretty soon the P.O. will disappear altogether, and people without computers will have to use either mental telepathy or smoke signals.
I'm just back from the Post Office:
Mail to Canada and Mexico is now .63/ounce
All other International Mail is .84/ounce.
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