Each additional ounce will cost $0.20 (no change from 2020).

First Class Mail Flats/Large Envelopes (1 oz.) rates will not increase and will remain at $1.00 (no change from 2020).

This four-cent discount compared to Post Office rates for a First Class Mail letter represents a savings of 7 percent.

'Metered Mail' rates for First Class Mail letters (1 oz.), which includes online postage and postage meters, will increase one cent to $0.51.

Each additional ounce for a First Class Mail letter will cost $0.20, a five-cent increase from 2020.

The First Class Mail letter (1 oz.) rate for postage purchased at the Post Office will remain at $0.55 (no change from 2020).

The Postal Service also stated it still has some of the lowest letter-mail postage rates in the industrialized world, and unlike some other shippers, the USPS does not add surcharges for fuel, residential delivery or regular Saturday delivery. In a statement announcing the price changes, the USPS noted that it receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. Domestic postcards will also run you a penny more, from the current 35 cents to 36 cents. Each additional ounce of a single-piece letter will increase in cost from 15 cents to 20 cents, while the current prepaid, 'metered mail' 1-ounce price will go up from 50 cents to 51 cents. (You also don't have to go to the post office at all to buy stamps you can always get them on the USPS website.)Īs for what will change next year, it's pretty much everything else. The price changes don't take effect until January 24, 2021.

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ImagesĪnother important detail to take note of is that you don't have to make it to the post office before the stroke of midnight on December 31 to duck the new rates. After January 24, make sure you have current postage on your mail before it boards one of these trucks. A USPS delivery truck in San Ramon, California, in 2017.

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