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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The cost of mailing a letter will go up on May 14, but you'll be able to lock in that price -- no matter how rates rise in the future -- by buying the new "forever" stamp.
The post office governing board agreed Monday to accept the new 41-cent rate for first class mail recommended in February by the independent Postal Regulatory Commission.
The board also agreed to the proposal for a forever stamp, which will always be valid for mailing a letter no matter how much rates increase.
James C. Miller III, chairman of the postal board, said the forever stamp could go on sale as soon as next month, at the 41-cent rate.
The postal governors asked the regulatory commission to reconsider some of its proposals, saying the suggested price for sending things like catalogs was too high.
This has got me puzzled, they talk about the new .41 forever stamp which is good forever, but yet from reading about it, it makes it sound like if stamps go up over the 41 cent mark then people will have to buy another forever stamp.
Not all .41 cent stamps are "forever". Only the .41 Liberty Bell stamp is forever, and that can only be purchased in books, not rolls. The .41 cent stamps purchased in rolls (the US flag or flower ones) are not "forever". Many post offices are not telling their customers this fact.
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News, Stamp goes to 41 cents in May; forever stamp OK'd.
Aren't stamps 41 cents already , though?
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Not all stamps are Forever
