FYI: New Postage Rates

Excerpts from USPS Press Release dated today: WASHINGTON - The Governors of the U.S. Postal Service today announced that they would allow the recommended decision of the Postal Rate Commission to raise the price of a First Class letter to 34 cents "under protest." New rates for all classes of mail will begin on January 7, 2001. Postage for mailing this year's holiday cards and packages remains the same. New 34-cent letter rate stamps will go on sale December 15. The first of the new stamps will be marked " USA FIRST-CLASS". In later stamp printings, the phrase "FIRST- CLASS" will be replaced by the 34-cent amount. Over two billion one-cent stamps are already available for customers to use up supplies of older 33-cent stamps. The new cost of mailing a two pound Priority Mail package increases to $3.95, although a new one pound rate is now also available at $3.50. The cost of mailing a one half pound Express Mail package increases to $12.25. Overall, rates are rising 4.6 percent, although price increases vary some by class of mail in accordance with the legal mandate for each class of mail to cover its own cost. The cost of mailing a letter will increase from 33 to 34 cents. Each additional ounce will decrease from 22 cents to 21 cents. The cost of mailing a postcard will remain 20 cents. International rates will also rise on January 7. In a separate action, the Governors rejected four classification changes recommended by the commission including the Courtesy Envelope Mail proposal and Information Based Indicia proposal. __________________ Man increase the 2 lb Prority mail $.75 is a going to raise shipping prices on ebay now. Heck a lot of sellers are charging $5-10 for it already....what next they are going to start to charge their "customers" $15 to ship 2 lbs? ~NiceMann __________________ Instead of using compustamps... The have 16000 left... Hahah serves them right __________________ at least CA taxes are going down 1/4% on jan 1st. from 8.25 to 8 in Los Angeles Mavi forum