May 10 will be the last day postal customers can purchase the Forever Stamp for 42 cents. First-class postage increases 4.76% (two cents) to 44 cents beginning on May 11. However, the Forever Stamp can be used to mail a one-ounce letter regardless of the current price of a First-class mail stamp, and regardless of [...]
As we reported a year ago, efforts have been renewed by several U.S. Senators, who today called on the United States Postal Service to issue the Purple Heart stamp on a permanent basis as a Forever Stamp.
“In a letter to Postmaster General John E. Potter, the Senators praised the reissuance of the Purple Heart [...]
The USPS Forever Stamp Booklet, converted by Avery Dennison Security Printing Division, won Best of Show honors in February at the 2008 Print Quality Awards held by the Packaging and Label Gravure Association at its 11th Annual conference.
“This was an extremely difficult job to print, not only was it necessary to keep each side in [...]
With less than a week before the 1-cent price hike in stamps starting on May 12, 2008, the U.S. Postal Service is reporting brisk sales of the Forever Stamp, with sales topping 60 million stamps a day. A First-Class Mail stamp will cost 42-cents starting Monday, but customers can continue to use the Forever [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a postal rate increase just two weeks away, Americans are buying 30 million Forever stamps a day.
The cost of sending a first-class letter will rise a penny to 42 cents on May 12, but the Forever stamps — currently selling for 41 cents — will remain valid for full postage after [...]
March 12, 2008
From NPR Morning Edition:
“It’s may now be viewed as snail mail, but the U.S. Postal Service has managed to hit on a winning strategy for selling stamps: Announce an increase in price, then offer a “Forever Stamp” that never goes up. Since its introduction last year, Americans have found the stamp such a [...]
The cost of a first-class stamp will rise to 42 cents starting May 12, the U.S. Postal Service said Monday.
The price of the Forever stamp will go up at the same time, meaning those stamps can still be purchased for 41 cents but will remain good for first-class postage after the rate increase takes effect.
The [...]
Forever Stamps did not win the “Word of the Year” honors from the American Dialect Society, however it did make the the list of new words for 2007, and it showed up on a few of those ubiquitous Top Stories of 2007 lists.
Though one can’t help but think the perpetually redeemable qualities of a Forever [...]
Under the new guidelines signed into law by President Bush last December, we may see the next round of postal increases by June 30, 2008. Under the new law, annual increases annual increases are allowed and will be tied to the Consumer Price Index, with rules to be determined by the Postal Regulatory Commission. [...]
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