{"id":750278,"date":"2026-07-08T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750278\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:17:42","slug":"the-price-of-stamps-could-be-increasing-again-as-soon-as-sunday-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750278\/","title":{"rendered":"The price of stamps could be increasing again as soon as Sunday. Here\u2019s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; Mailing a letter could soon cost you more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Postal Service plans to raise the price of a first-class forever stamp from 78 cents to 82 cents, pending approval from federal regulators. If approved, the new price would take effect Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Postcard prices would also go up \u2013 with domestic postcards rising to 65 cents and international postcards to $1.75.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Postal Service says it needs more revenue to help offset rising operating costs as it works to remain self-funded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stamp prices have climbed steadily in recent years. For example, a first-class forever stamp cost just 55 cents in 2020. But the USPS maintains its postage rates remain among the lowest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; Mailing a letter could soon cost you more. The U.S. Postal Service plans to raise the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,198939,321750,321751,321749,167676,1892],"class_list":["post-750278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-forever-stamp","tag-postcard-price","tag-stamp-prices","tag-stamp-prices-increase","tag-us-postal-service","tag-usps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}