USPS Proposes Rate Increases for Next January

Standard flats are slated to increase 6.1 percent and catalog/magazine mailers could see a 5.9 percent postal rate increase, on average. The 5.9 percent includes a 4.3 percent exigent price increase on top of the 1.6 percent increase that is capped by the rate of inflation.

Highlights of the new single-piece First-Class Mail pricing, effective Jan. 26, 2014, include: