{"id":35240,"date":"2013-12-26T07:37:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=35240"},"modified":"2013-12-26T09:42:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T15:42:42","slug":"cost-of-postage-stamps-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=35240","title":{"rendered":"Cost Of First Class Stamp To Rise To 49\u00a2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/uspslogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5409\" alt=\"uspslogo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/uspslogo-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON &#8211; Mailing a letter is about to get a little more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Regulators on Tuesday approved a temporary price hike of 3 cents for a first-class stamp, bringing the charge to 49 cents a letter in an effort to help the Postal Service recover from severe mail decreases brought on by the 2008 economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>Many consumers won&#8217;t feel the price increase immediately. Forever stamps, good for first-class postage whatever the future rate, can be purchased at the lower price until the new rate is effective Jan. 26, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The higher rate will last no more than two years, allowing the Postal Service to recoup $2.8 billion in losses. By a 2-1 vote, the independent Postal Regulatory Commission rejected a request to make the price hike permanent, though inflation over the next 24 months may make it so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Mailing a letter is about to get a little more expensive. Regulators on Tuesday approved a temporary price hike of 3 cents for a first-class stamp, bringing the charge to 49 cents a letter in an effort to help the Postal Service recover from severe mail decreases brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35240"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35275,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35240\/revisions\/35275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}