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Postage increases to 42 cents Monday
Bee Metro Staff -
Last Updated 11:52 am PDT Sunday, May 11, 2008
You still have a few hours to buy a book, or two or three, of Forever stamps the postal service sells as a hedge against future rate increases -- like the one due tomorrow.
The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents Monday, the most recent in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service.
A new law regulating the post office makes it easier to raise rates as long as the agency doesn't exceed the rate of inflation. Rates are to be adjusted each May. Forever stamps stay valid despite what the postal service is charging to mail a first-class letter.
Trouble is, it's Sunday. Where to buy?
Online, it's still possible to navigate to Web sites like Stamps.com and the postal services' own online shopping site, Shop.usps.com, where you can click to pick a pack of those stamps.
Sales of the Forever stamp reached 64 million a day in April, postal officials said.
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