The United States Postal Service is about to boost the price of a first-class stamp to 66 cents.
The enhance from 63 cents will take impact July 9, 2023 except a postal regulator overrules the hike. The company’s worth enhance from 60 cents was accepted in January.
The USPS has raised costs 4 instances within the final two years and by 32% since 2019, when stamps went from 50 cents to 55 cents.
The new charges from the USPS board of governors increase general first-class mail costs by 5.4%.
First-class mail accounted for about 31% complete USPS income of $78.8 billion in 2022. However, the company has seen a decline in mail and bundle quantity to date in 2023.
The worth jumps are a part of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plan to make up a projected $160 billion price range shortfall.
“As operating expenses fueled by inflation continue to rise and the effects of a previously defective pricing model are still being felt, these price adjustments are needed to provide the Postal Service with much needed revenue to achieve financial stability,” the company wrote in a information launch. “The prices of the U.S. Postal Service remain among the most affordable in the world.”
American Postal Workers Union president Mark Dimonstein expressed concern and burdened how the company wanted to strike a stability.
“There’s certainly a balance. We’re not economists, we understand inflation’s far too high for working people, but it also affects the Post Office. They are going to have to raise some rates, in order to be able to carry out its mission. But we don’t want them raised so far that they’re hurting customers,” Dimonstein instructed Federal News Network.
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