{"id":5396,"date":"2012-10-12T07:43:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T12:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2012-10-12T10:32:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:32:51","slug":"postal-rates-to-go-up-in-jan-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5396","title":{"rendered":"Postal Rates To Go Up In Jan. 2013, Reduction In Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/uspslogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5409\" title=\"uspslogo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/uspslogo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 It\u2019ll cost another penny to mail a letter next year.<\/p>\n<p>The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it will raise postage rates on Jan. 27, 2013 \u00a0including a 1-cent increase in the cost of first-class mail to 46 cents.<\/p>\n<p>It also will introduce a new global \u201cforever\u201d stamp, allowing customers to mail first-class letters anywhere in the world for one set price of $1.10. Currently, the prices vary depending on the international destination, with letters to Canada and Mexico costing 85 cents.<\/p>\n<p>The mail agency also will increase rates on its shipping services, such as priority mail, by an average of 4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In the area&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With USPS\u00a0 reduction in post offfice hours, &#8220;The Post Plan,&#8221; includes a reduction in the hours of operation at Buchanan from eight to two hours per day.<\/p>\n<p>The USPS is scheduling meetings \u00a0in Ypsilanti and Montpelier in November, 2012, \u00a0to discuss reductions in services.<\/p>\n<p>Patrons of other post offices will be notified by mail about a month before a meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 It\u2019ll cost another penny to mail a letter next year. The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it will raise postage rates on Jan. 27, 2013 \u00a0including a 1-cent increase in the cost of first-class mail to 46 cents. It also will introduce a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jamestown","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","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=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5408,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}