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Reminder: Postage Price Hike Happening This Weekend!
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Jamie Feldmar
Published Jan 17, 2012
Modified Jan 17, 2012
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The Post Office, currently dying a slow, prolonged death, is rattling out one final (?) wish this weekend, a postage price hike that surely won't be enough to save the institution. But they can try!
So, anyway, send your letters now, because starting on Sunday, the tides are a'changing: first class stamps, most of which are also forever stamps, are going up from 44 to 45 cents a pop, the cost for mailing a postcard will go from 29 to 32 cents, letters to Canada and Mexico will go from 80 to 85 cents, and letters to other international destinations will go from 98 cents to $1.05.
"The overall average price increase is small and is needed to help address our current financial crisis," said Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, though we suspect the institution will simply pocket all the checks our grandma sends with a 44-cent stamp instead.
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