The United States Postal Service officially announced the price of Forever stamps and other postage will go up on Jan. 22, 2023. The move has been anticipated for months after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in August that increases would be necessary to keep up with costs. Inflation was expected to add $1 billion to the Postal Service’s operating budget, the Associated Press reported.
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The cheapest stamps I can recall was maybe 8 cents back in the mid-70s. That was the age when I started mailing letters and addressing envelopes on my own, maybe 14-15 years old? Before that, I'd just hand the unstamped envelopes to my folks and they'd put it in with their outgoing mail.
