pojo

I asked just before Christmas and they said it wasn't going up.
I bought 10 books of forever stamps.

carhop

i got a roll of stamps today and they were the forever ones so it comming

nativetexan

hmmmm, i asked the postal lady about that and she said it's just package costs, not letters. i hope she was right because i'd just bought a roll of stamps!

charmpacksplus

I remember back when stamps were five cents each. When they raised the price to six cents, that was a 20% increase. If they raise the price from .44 to .46 that's only a .045% increase. Less than one half of one percent. So it makes sense for them to print Forever stamps all year long and sell them at the going rate than to print new stamps every time they raise the rates plus print a ton of two cent stamps so people can use up the old .44 ones. That's why they sell them to you now even without you asking for them.

Sorry, I'm a math kind of person. :D

3incollege

My post office said that they didn't hear about the increase!

ptquilts

I tried to find out about it on the USPS website and just got through banging my head against the wall. That is one "NOT USER FRIENDLY" website.

sueisallaboutquilts

Somehow I found "new rates for 2011" or something like that.
It's such a long list that I just read part of it and closed it.

GGquilts

I did read that starting in Jan 2011 all stamps are going to be forever stamps. GG

tutty

Thank you !!!!!!

redkimba

people still mail letters??? ;-P

I generally do most of my stuff on-line - email folks, pay bills, etc.