{"id":1594,"date":"2010-11-03T07:38:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2010-11-03T07:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T12:38:52","slug":"usps-announces-2011-shipping-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/11\/03\/usps-announces-2011-shipping-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS ANNOUNCES 2011 SHIPPING PRICES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/shipping-prices-2011.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1595\" title=\"shipping prices 2011\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/shipping-prices-2011-150x150.gif\" alt=\"2011 Shipping Prices\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>USPS ANNOUNCES\u00a02011 SHIPPING PRICES<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>NEW FLAT-RATE SHIPPING INNOVATIONS DEBUT IN JANUARY<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A host of new flat-rate product innovations will be ushered in with the new year when prices for Priority Mail, Express Mail and other Shipping Services change Jan. 2, 2011. The overall price change for all Shipping Services products, which are adjusted each January, is 3.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Extending the popularity of its Priority Mail Flat Rate products, the Postal Service next year will introduce a legal-size flat-rate envelope measuring 15-by-9.5 inches and a padded flat-rate envelope measuring 12.5-by-9.5 inches, both priced at $4.95. All six types of Priority Mail Flat Rate envelopes will be priced the same as the regular Priority Mail Envelope (12.5-by-9.5 inches) at $4.95, including the Gift Card Flat Rate Envelope, Window Flat Rate Envelope, and the Small Flat Rate Envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing for the Express Mail Flat Rate Envelope will remain unchanged at $18.30, but will be joined by a new Express Mail Legal Flat Rate Envelope (15-by-9.5 inches) offered at that same price.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to an overall price change of 3.5 percent for Priority Mail, new prices for Express Mail, Global Express Guaranteed, Express Mail International, Priority Mail International, Parcel Select and Parcel Return Service will be effective Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The popular Hold For Pickup service option \u2014 currently available for Express Mail only \u2014 will be extended to Priority Mail and First-Class Mail commercial parcels in the new year. Packages with the Hold For Pickup endorsement are shipped directly to a Post Office, instead of being left at a recipient\u2019s address. Packages are then held at the Post Office until picked up anytime during office hours, at a time convenient for the recipient.<\/p>\n<p>And, for Commercial Base and Commercial Plus customers mailing regionally, a new Priority Mail Regional Rate Box \u2014 available in two sizes \u2014 offers zone-based pricing with the \u201cIf it Fits it Ships\u201d concept. Volume thresholds for Commercial Plus customers have also been reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Also available to Commercial Plus customers is another innovative product offering \u2014 Critical Mail. Critical Mail, a category of Priority Mail with First-Class Mail service standards, requires using USPS-supplied envelopes at a mailing cost of $3.50 for letters and $4.25 for larger, flat-size pieces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usps.com\/prices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for a complete listing of 2011 prices. The new prices and product innovations are pending Postal Regulatory Commission review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS ANNOUNCES\u00a02011 SHIPPING PRICES NEW FLAT-RATE SHIPPING INNOVATIONS DEBUT IN JANUARY A host of new flat-rate product innovations will be ushered in with the new year when prices for Priority Mail, Express Mail and other Shipping Services change Jan. 2, 2011. The overall price change for all Shipping Services products, which are adjusted each January, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}