A 2-cent boost in the price of a postage stamp was approved Tuesday by the independent Postal Rate Commission. Under the recommendation, which now goes to the Postal Service's Board of Governors for final action, the cost of a first-class stamp will go from 37 cents to 39 cents and the postcard rate will rise a penny to 24 cents. The Postal Service requested the increase last April. It is expected to go into effect in January.Hope you didn't just buy one of those rolls of 100 stamps! What a hassle for such a small increase. They should just increase it 10 cents and leave it alone for a longer time, instead of 2-cent increases every few months.
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Posted by: dave on Nov 2nd, 2005 | 2:45pm
when i saw that they were raising it to 39, i definetly thought they should have raised it to .40. That way you could get 5 stamps for 2 bucks even, and it would be a lot easier for calculations, plus it might buy an extra year or 2 before they hike it again.