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Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.
On November 3, 1917, the normal letter rate was raised from 2¢ to 3¢ in support of the war effort. The rate hike was reflected in the first postwar commemorative—a 3¢ "victory" stamp released on March 3, 1919 (not until July 1 would postal fees return to peacetime levels).
The Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) is a document that lays out the policies and prices of the United States Postal Service (USPS). In legal parlance, it contains "the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service". [1] Changes to the DMM are announced in the Federal Register. [2]
The Postal Service said it will not increase prices for Mailing Services in January, meaning the cost of sending regular letters will remain the same. The rate changes are part of “Delivering ...
International Letter (1 oz.): $1.40 to $1.45. USPS is also requesting price increases for Special Services products, such as Certified Mail, Post Office Box rental fees, money order fees and the ...
The increase will help cover the service's 10-year Delivering for America plan. ... International letters will be $1.65, a 10-cent increase. ... USPS plans second rate hike of 2024. Show comments.
The result was that a Washington definitive issue for the normal letter rate—an invariable feature of American postage since 1870—remained continuously available to the public. The 3¢ Lincoln stamp from the 1922 series still sold widely in 1932 but disappeared from post offices the following year, prompting such protests that the Bureau ...
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