![]() ![]() Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ![]() US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account USPS expects to lose $4.5 billion in 2023. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, appointed during the Trump administration, has pursued sweeping changes during his tenure to try to bolster the agency’s finances. The number of individual letters sent each year has fallen by about half in the past decade. Forever stamps, however, can still be used for first-class mail no matter when or what price you purchased them for.ĭomestic postcards will also increase from 48 cents to 51 cents, and international postcards from $1.45 to $1.50.įirst-class mail is becoming a smaller part of the Postal Service’s business because of online communication. It will amount to a 32% increase over the past four years. “These price adjustments are needed to provide the Postal Service with much needed revenue,” the agency said in a statement. Although inflation has been cooling over the past nine months - prices were up 5% last month on an annual basis - it remains above the central bank’s target of around 2%. Surging prices have dented business across the globe over the past two years, in many cases pushing up workers’ wages and increasing the costs of doing business. Postal Service pricing takes effect early in the month. The Postal Service said the hike was necessary to offset a rise in operating expenses. WASHINGTONChanges are coming to your mail in July, as new U.S. The change goes into effect Sunday, raising the cost of mailing a first-class letter by about 5.4%. ![]() Inflation hits the mailbox: Postage stamp prices are rising, again For just 1 1.50 First-Class Mail International Global Forever stamp, you can send a 1 oz letter or postcard to any other country in the world. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The price increase is set to take effect on July 9 pending approval by the postal regulator. SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 11: The USPS is seeking to raise the price of a first-class stamp from 63 cents to 66 cents, up 32 percent since 2019 when the price of a stamp was 50 cents. ![]()
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