Postal Rates
I just spent the last 30 minutes on the US Postal Service website trying to find out what the new rates are going to be when the stamp prices go up on Monday. You'd think there'd be a huge banner, if not a link, on the front page advertising these changes, but no. If you go to the stamp buying portion, you can see the new rate for domestic is 41 cents, but there's nothing for international.
I could not find the information ANYWHERE. When you do the postage calculation, it gives you the old rates. I finally found a table that had a huge listing of prices but how the heck do I know which one is a regular old letter?
I finally broke down and called them and a customer service rep told me the first class letter price for the UK has gone up to 90 cents (from 84) and that she thinks the post card price is also 90 cents but she's "not sure". It's four days away, and she's not sure? According to this page, it looks like the postcards will indeed be 90 cents, which seems crazy to me--they're going to charge the exact same price for postcards as letters? Hmmf.
