{"id":193229,"date":"2026-04-11T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:48:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-usps-proposes-raising-price-of-first-class-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193229\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Usps Proposes Raising Price Of First Class Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Stamp prices could be going up again this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Postal Service is proposing a four-cent increase for its First-Class Mail Forever Stamp.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, that would bring the price to 82 cents, starting July 12.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed hike comes as USPS faces financial pressures, such as declining mail volume, high operating costs and pension obligations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Postal Service is using all available tools, including available regulatory pricing authority, to ensure we can continue to fulfill our universal service obligation and serve the American public,&#8221; the agency said in a press release on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The move, which still needs final approval, would mark the eighth stamp price increase since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stamp prices could be going up again this summer. The United States Postal Service is proposing a four-cent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-193229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}