Postage Rates Increase May 11: See Stamp Prices Through the Years

Because of my eBay business, I ship a LOT of packages every month. I pack and prepare them; while Steve weighs them, posts them, and drops them off at the post office each morning. We have watched postage prices climb numerous times throughout the eleven years we have been at this. Come Monday morning, May 11th, a stamp hike will take effect yet again. This is the fifth time the price of a letter stamp has been increased in the last ten years; climbing from .33 cents in 1999 to .44 cents in 2009.

The USPS says that the postage increase is essential, as they just ended the fiscal second quarter on March 31 with a net loss of

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