Price Of Stamps | Changes Announced In Mail Delivery

Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County-- Snail letter is about to obtain a entire lot slower.

Dave Williams,

Vice President, U.S. Postal Service says, "Mail that is forsaken in a blue gathering box will no longer take overnight service standard."

To make up for reduction and reduction letter being sent every year, often due to services on the internet, the U.S. Postal Service is interlude its overnight service for first-class mail.

The portion will save the cash-strapped postal service about 3 billion dollars.

And that's not all.

Williams adds, "Our two day typical is a 13 hour pushing distance, we're modifying that to a 4 our pushing stretch that expands to a 3 day service standard."

That means sending a letter from Wilkes-Barre to say

Scranton will take two days when it used to take one.

Sending a card from Kingston to

Pittsburgh will take 3 days when it used to take only two.

Any long stretch letter that usually took 3 days will sojourn at 3 days.

And the prolonging is pushing the calm of a few postal service customers.

Joe Garcia of

Wilkes-Barre says, "Much as well long. 48 hours? we do not regard so."

But others similar to Jeff Flannery won't fret over the wait.

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F lannery visits this post office on South Main Street is

Wilkes-Barre considerably often.

Flannery says, "I use it for all of my mailings, all of my mailings because the service is super."

And according to Flannery that super service won't endure even with a new slower schedule.

Flannery says, "It's a prerequisite since the contest and the tumble in business. It's only similar to running a household. You have to do what you have to do with what you have to do it with."

The changes in smoothness are set to beginning in the spring.

And beginning January 22nd, the cost of stamps will go up one cent to 45 cents.