Mailing a e-mail will cost a small more next year.
The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service voiced Tuesday skeleton to enlarge postage rates starting Jan. 22, 2012.
First category stamps will way up a cent to 45 cents. But that's not all that will cost customers more.
Postcard postage will enlarge 3 cents to 32 cents and letters to Canada and Mexico will burst 5 cents to 85 cents. Mailing letters to other general destinations will cost 7 more cents to $1.05.
The final enlarge to the postage stamp was n 2009.
According to the law, The Postal Service cannot elevate prices more than the rate of inflation, that is 2.1 percent. Last year, the Postal Regulatory Commission denied the Postal Service the special solicit to elevate prices more than the rate of inflation.
In the mercantile 2010 year, the Postal Service mislaid $8 billion, compared to $3.8 billion loss the previous year. Up to the 2010 mercantile year, mail volume declined 20 percent.
Figures are approaching to wear when the examination for 2011 mercantile year is expelled next month. It has been speculated that the group will be pennyless by 2012.
Hundreds of thousands of postal workers might remove their jobs or face extreme changes to their benefits.