{"id":34007,"date":"2023-07-06T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=34007"},"modified":"2023-07-06T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:10:44","slug":"several-postal-service-price-changes-will-take-effect-july-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2023\/07\/06\/several-postal-service-price-changes-will-take-effect-july-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Postal Service price changes will take effect July 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><strong>New pricing &#8211; Changes take effect July 9<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>July 2023 &#8211; Several Postal Service price changes will take effect July 9.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list of the current and new prices:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>Letters (1 ounce):<\/strong>\u00a063 cents (current), 66 cents (new)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>Letters (metered 1 ounce):<\/strong>\u00a060 cents (current), 63 cents (new)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>Domestic postcards:<\/strong>\u00a048 cents (current), 51 cents (new)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>International postcards:<\/strong>\u00a0$1.45 (current), $1.50 (new)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>International letters (1 ounce):<\/strong>\u00a0$1.45 (current), $1.50 (new)<\/p>\n<p>The single-piece letter and flat additional-ounce price remains unchanged at 24 cents.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will raise First-Class Mail prices approximately 5.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service will also implement pricing adjustments for Special Services products, including Certified Mail, Post Office Box rental fees, money order fees and the cost to purchase insurance when mailing an item.<\/p>\n<p>The price adjustments are needed to provide the organization with much-needed revenue to achieve the financial stability sought by its Delivering for America 10-year plan.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service\u2019s prices remain among the most affordable in the world.<\/p>\n<p>USPS\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2023\/04\/10\/new-pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>announced the price changes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in April.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pe.usps.com\/PriceChange\/Index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Postal Explorer website<\/em><\/a>\u00a0has the price change tables.<\/p>\n<p>Source: USPS News Link<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/USPS495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30360\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/USPS495-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/USPS495-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/USPS495-123x70.jpg 123w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/USPS495.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New pricing &#8211; Changes take effect July 9 July 2023 &#8211; Several Postal Service price changes will take effect July 9. Here\u2019s a list of the current and new prices: \u2022\u00a0Letters (1 ounce):\u00a063 cents (current), 66 cents (new) \u2022\u00a0Letters (metered 1 ounce):\u00a060 cents (current), 63 cents (new) \u2022\u00a0Domestic postcards:\u00a048 cents (current), 51 cents (new) \u2022\u00a0International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34007","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=34007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34010,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34007\/revisions\/34010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}