{"id":24954,"date":"2023-07-06T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=24954"},"modified":"2023-07-03T06:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T11:21:49","slug":"buy-stamps-now-prices-rise-again-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/government\/buy-stamps-now-prices-rise-again-next-week-20230706","title":{"rendered":"Buy Stamps Now- Prices Rise Again Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you send letters? How about mailing bills? It&#8217;s best to stock up now on forever stamps. The price is going up on Sunday. Currently, a Forever stamp costs 63 cents. But it won\u2019t stay that way for long: On July 9, 2023, the price will increase by approximately 5.4%, to 66 cents, the <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 cSbpGs js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/faq.usps.com\/s\/article\/2023-Postage-Price-Changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/faq.usps.com\/s\/article\/2023-Postage-Price-Changes&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" data-uri=\"ab9b9a9422e69b4bafad3595f3ee677f\">USPS announced<\/a> earlier this year. While they blame the price increase on inflation, part of the problem is digital. People send mail and pay bills online. They no longer need stamps.<\/p>\n<h3>Again?<\/h3>\n<p>If you are asking: Didn&#8217;t the USPS just raise prices? You are correct! On January 23, 2023, postage went up from 60 cents to 63 cents. That means that postage stamps went up 6 cents this year. And the year is not over yet!<\/p>\n<h3>Forever Stamps?<\/h3>\n<p>Forever stamps are always usable for first-class mail, no matter what you paid for them or the current postage rate.<\/p>\n<h3>What Are Increasing?<\/h3>\n<p>The first-class forever stamps are increasing from 63 cents to 66 cents. While you are on vacation and want to send a postcard, its price is going from 47 cents to 51 cents. An international letter or postcard will increase from $1.45 to $1.50.<\/p>\n<h3>When Is The Change?<\/h3>\n<p>Buy your stamps by Saturday, July 8, 2023, because the prices go up on Sunday, July 9, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price is going up on Sunday. Currently, a Forever stamp costs 63 cents. But it won\u2019t stay that way for long:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[223,217,215,203,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24954"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24968,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24954\/revisions\/24968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}