USPS Announces New Pricing, Introduces Global Forever Stamp

New pricing for First-Class Mail single-piece letters and domestic flat-rate shipping products will go into effect next January.

Also beginning early next year, USPS will offer a First-Class Mail Global Forever Stamp.  The new stamp will allow customers to mail letters anywhere in the world for one set price of $1.10.

Highlights of the new single-piece First-Class Mail pricing, effective January 27, 2013, include:

·     Letters (1oz.): 1-cent increase to 46 cents

·     Letters additional ounces: unchanged at 20 cents

·     Letters to all international destinations (1oz.): $1.10

·     Postcards: 1-cent increase to 33 cents

New domestic retail pricing for Priority Mail Flat Rate products include:

·     Small box: $5.80

·     Medium box: $12.35

·     Large box: $16.85

·     Large APO/FPO box: $14.85

·     Regular envelope: $5.60

·     Legal envelope: $5.75

·     Padded envelope: $5.95

Several new Shipping Services products also will be available in January. Free tracking will be offered to all competitive packages, including retail Priority Mail and Parcel Post (recently renamed Standard Post). And customers shipping Critical Mail letters and flats will have the option of receiving a signature upon delivery. 

The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) will review the prices before they become effective. The new Mailing Service prices will be available at http://pe.usps.com.