NPES Government Affairs Update — Mailing & Postage

Postal Rate Commission Ruling

The new Postal Regulatory Commission has recommended that the price of a First-Class one-ounce letter stamp be increased from 39 cents to 41 cents, which could be implemented as early as May by the U.S. Postal Service. The USPS had proposed a 42 cent First-Class stamp. Postcards will go from 24 cents to 26 cents, and the First-Class additional ounce rate will decline from 24 cents to 17 cents as the result of refinements in shape-based rate schedules for letters, flats and parcels.