{"id":28069,"date":"2020-01-23T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28069"},"modified":"2020-01-23T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:19:25","slug":"usps-price-changes-take-effect-jan-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/01\/23\/usps-price-changes-take-effect-jan-26\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Price Changes Take Effect Jan. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Postal Service price changes that were\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2019\/10\/09\/new-prices-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced last fall<\/a><\/em>\u00a0will take effect Jan. 26.<\/p>\n<p>The changes include adjustments to Mailing Services and Shipping Services products.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the current and new prices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First-Class Mail letters (1 ounce):<\/strong>\u00a055 cents (no change from current price)<\/li>\n<li><strong>First-Class Mail letters (additional ounces):<\/strong>\u00a015 cents (no change)<\/li>\n<li><strong>First-Class Mail letters (metered 1 ounce):<\/strong>\u00a050 cents (no change)<\/li>\n<li><strong>First-Class Mail outbound international letters (1 ounce):<\/strong>\u00a0$1.15 (current), $1.20 (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>First-Class Mail single-piece flats (1 ounce):<\/strong>\u00a0$1 (no change)<\/li>\n<li><strong>First-Class Mail single-piece flats and presort flats (additional ounces):<\/strong>\u00a015 cents (current), 20 cents (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>First-Class Mail domestic postcard stamps:<\/strong>\u00a035 cents (no change)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Priority Mail small flat-rate box:<\/strong>\u00a0$7.90 (current), $8.30 (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Priority Mail medium flat-rate box:<\/strong>\u00a0$14.35 (current), $15.05 (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Priority Mail large flat-rate box:<\/strong>\u00a0$19.95 (current), $21.10 (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Priority Mail Army\/Air Post Office and Fleet Post Office large flat-rate box:<\/strong>\u00a0$18.45 (current), $19.60 (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Priority Mail regular flat-rate envelope:<\/strong>\u00a0$7.35 (current), $7.75 (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Priority Mail legal flat-rate envelope:<\/strong>\u00a0$7.65 (current), $8.05 (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Priority Mail padded flat-rate envelope:<\/strong>\u00a0$8 (current), $8.40 (new)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, Mailing Services product prices will rise by approximately 1.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Shipping Services price increases vary by product. For example, Priority Mail Express prices will increase 3.5 percent, while Priority Mail prices will increase 4.1 percent, on average.<\/p>\n<p>Mailing Services price increases are capped by the consumer price index. Shipping Services prices are adjusted according to market conditions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19525\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/usps1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/usps1.jpg 416w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/usps1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/usps1-80x55.jpg 80w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/usps1-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Postal Service price changes that were\u00a0announced last fall\u00a0will take effect Jan. 26. The changes include adjustments to Mailing Services and Shipping Services products. Here are the current and new prices: First-Class Mail letters (1 ounce):\u00a055 cents (no change from current price) First-Class Mail letters (additional ounces):\u00a015 cents (no change) First-Class Mail letters (metered 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069","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=28069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28070,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069\/revisions\/28070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}