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  2. What’s changing for USPS in 2025? - AOL

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    The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will raise shipping prices in early 2025 while keeping the cost of first-class stamps unchanged. The proposed price hikes, which would take effect Jan. 19, include a ...

  3. U.S. Special Delivery (postal service) - Wikipedia

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    In 1886 the Special Delivery service was expanded to all post offices and a new stamp was designed. The revised stamp was identical to the first issue of 1885 but instead bore the statement "Secures immediate delivery at any post office." The release of the revised stamp was delayed by the Post Office until 1888, however, allowing supplies of ...

  4. Express mail in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Special Delivery, a domestic accelerated local delivery service, was introduced on 3 March 1885 initially with a fee of 10¢ paid by a Special Delivery stamp. It was transformed into Express Mail, introduced in 1977 by Ronald B. Lee after an experimental period that started in 1970, [7] although Special Delivery was not terminated until June 8, 1997.

  5. As Another Price Hike Looms, Here's Why the Cost of Stamps ...

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    More Postage Due. The U.S. Postal Service is planning to raise postage costs for a second time this year on July 14 with the price of a first-class stamp rising to 73 cents from 68 cents.

  6. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased. [32]

  7. Stock Up on Stamps Now: The USPS Announced Another Price Increase

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    The United States Postal Service announced a big increase in the price of first class forever stamps. Stamp prices will increase from 68 cents to 73 cents beginning July 14. ... to 28 cents on the ...

  8. Express mail - Wikipedia

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    Express mail is an expedited mail delivery service for which the customer pays a premium for faster delivery. Express mail is a service for domestic and international mail, and is in most nations governed by the country's own postal administration. Since 1999, the international express delivery services are governed by the EMS Cooperative. [1]

  9. American Letter Mail Company - Wikipedia

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    It cost 18 3/4 cents to send a letter from Boston to New York and 25 cents to send one from Boston to Washington, DC. A letter sent from Boston to Albany, NY written on a 1/4-ounce sheet of paper and carried by the Western Railroad, cost 2/3 as much as the freight charge for carrying a barrel of flour the same distance.