{"id":483125,"date":"2026-10-02T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483125\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:50:12","slug":"usps-holiday-shipping-price-increases-take-effect-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483125\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS holiday shipping price increases take effect Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/newsroom\/national-releases\/2026\/0825-usps-announces-temporary-price-change-for-2026-holiday-shipping-season.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Postal Service<\/a> is increasing rates for the 2026 holiday season. The temporary increases are intended to offset higher handling and operational costs during peak shipping demand.<\/p>\n<p>The rate changes go into effect on Sunday and remain in place until  Jan. 17, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The price increases affect Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage and Parcel Select shipments. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/us-news\/us-postal-service-no-longer-in-immediate-cash-crisis-regulators-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Postal Service no longer in immediate cash crisis, regulators say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most customers will experience single-digit to low double-digit percentage increases, according to USPS. The steepest percentage impacts will likely hit heavier packages traveling farther distances during peak season.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy long-distance packages could have price increases of nearly 10%\u201325%. Smaller Priority Mail packages will face a less steep increase of about 4-10%. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the changes appear to land in roughly the 5%\u201315% range.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/us-news\/us-postal-service-to-suspend-employer-payments-to-workers-pensions-citing-cash-crunch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Postal Service to suspend employer payments to workers&#8217; pensions, citing cash crunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USPS says the temporary adjustment will bring prices for the Postal Service\u2019s retail and commercial customers in line with competitive practices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Postal Service is increasing rates for the 2026 holiday season. The temporary increases are intended to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-483125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}