New US Postage Rates in Effect

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The US Postal Service (USPS) has raised postage rates, effective today. Mailing a one-ounce letter domestically will cost 44 cents (up 2 cents from 42) and postcards will cost 28 cents. Rates for additional weight increments are unchanged.

This is the fifth rate hike since 2000, and it's due to the recession: companies can't afford to sent out as much bulk mail (i.e. junk mail), so the USPS loses out on thousands and thousands of stapm sales (or cranks through one of those Pitney Bowes machines) per abandoned mail merge. (I used to work for a mail-merge service provider, my first-ever tech job... we're talking a lot of mailings).

You can also buy forever stamps (info link- this is sort of hard to find on usps.com), which lock in their postage rate and last as long as the stamp does.