Last Updated on January 21, 2017 2:12 pm
The price to send mail goes up starting Sunday January 22. The United States Postal Service announced the notice to raise prices in October. The new prices include a two cent increase in the price of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp, returning the price to 49 cents.
The last time stamp prices increased was in January 2014. The price change filing does not include any price change for Postcards, for letters being mailed to international destinations or for additional ounces for letters.
The First-Class Mail prices for these products are:
| Current | New | |
| Letters (1 oz.) | 47 cents | 49 cents |
| Letters additional ounces | 21 cents | 21 cents |
| Letters to all international destinations | $1.15 | $1.15 |
| Postcards | 34 cents | 34 cents |
