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Postage Rates Increase
By Daphne | May 12, 2008
Postage rates rise today. It will now cost you an extra penny to mail a first class letter.
If you hadn’t already thought about it, you may want to start paying more bills online. Each month if you pay 5 or 6 bills online you could save $2.40 or $2.52 a month. Over the course of a year, this is an extra 28.80 or 30.24 per year. That is only if you pay 5 or 6 bills online monthly for a year. You may save even more if you decide that you want to even make donations online or pay one-time fees with a credit card and then pay the charges in full when the credit card bill comes.
Compare the prices and services of other companies like UPS and FedEx if you need to send larger packages that are insured and with delivery confirmation. The price for the postal service doesn’t include insurance and delivery confirmation in their prices. If you can wait for a package to get there you would possibly use the ground service for either service and receive a comparable rate.
Here are some other postal increases that go into effect today
The cost to mail a post card will also go up a penny, to 27 cents.
- Large envelope, 2 ounces, $1, up 3 cents.
- Money Orders up to $500, $1.05, unchanged.
- Certified mail, $2.70, up 5 cents.
- First-class international letter to Canada or Mexico, 72 cents, up 3 cents.
- First-class international letter to other countries, 94 cents, up 4 cents.
- Priority mail flat-rate envelope, $4.75, up 25 cents.
- Express mail flat-rate envelope, $16.50, up 25 cents.
Topics: May 2008 |