Numlock News: April 16, 2024 • Tracker, Dungeons & Dragons, The Boy and the Heron
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By Walt Hickey First Class The cost of a Forever U.S. postage stamp will rise from 68 cents to 73 cents in July, following a price hike just this past January and the sixth increase since January 2021. Still, could be worse: Comparing the U.S. to 30 other peer countries, there are just four countries with cheaper stamps than the United States, and the 26 percent increase from June 2018 to June 2023 is half the average stamp price increase of 55 percent of those countries. One driver of the price hikes for first-class mail is declining volume, with the number of mailed items
Numlock News: April 16, 2024 • Tracker, Dungeons & Dragons, The Boy and the Heron
Numlock News: April 16, 2024 • Tracker…
Numlock News: April 16, 2024 • Tracker, Dungeons & Dragons, The Boy and the Heron
By Walt Hickey First Class The cost of a Forever U.S. postage stamp will rise from 68 cents to 73 cents in July, following a price hike just this past January and the sixth increase since January 2021. Still, could be worse: Comparing the U.S. to 30 other peer countries, there are just four countries with cheaper stamps than the United States, and the 26 percent increase from June 2018 to June 2023 is half the average stamp price increase of 55 percent of those countries. One driver of the price hikes for first-class mail is declining volume, with the number of mailed items