Price of stamps jumps; cold temps expected for much of country; more: News of …Plain DealerStamps jump 3 cents: Pack a little extra change if you plan on heading out to buy stamps today. The price of a first class stamp increased yesterday from 46 cents to 49 cents. Stamps rose in price one penny…
Stamps.com announced a historic new discount for its customers who mail single piece letters. Using Stamps.com software, a one ounce letter costs just 48c instead of the new 49c rate required elsewhere. … More: continued here
More working-age people using food stamps as wages remain stagnantPlain DealerMaggie Barcellano sits down for dinner Saturday with her daughter, Zoe, 3, at Barcellano's father's house in Austin, Texas. Barcellano, who lives with her father, enrolled in the food stamps program to help save up for paramedic training while she … More: continued here
Las Vegas Review-Journal Working-age adults the face of food stampsLas Vegas Review-JournalMaggie Barcellano plays with her three-year-old daughter, Zoe, at Lakeway City Park in Lakeway, Texas on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014. Barcellano enrolled in the food stamps program to help save up for paramedic training while she works as a home health … More: continued here
Price Of Stamps Jump Up On MondayFox17The spike is a 6.5 percent jump, contrary to the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which states that stamp prices cannot increase faster than the rate of inflation, The Wall Street Journal reported. Mounting financial losses forced the USPS to … More: continued here
new face of food stamps: working-age Americansazcentral.comWASHINGTON — In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps— a switch from a few years ago, when children and the elderly were the main recipients. Some of the change is due to demographics, such … More: continued here
ICYMI: Price of stamps rose todayDubuque Telegraph HeraldMany people won't feel the increase right away: Forever stamps are good for first-class postage at whatever the future rate. The last increase for stamps was a year ago, when the cost of sending a letter rose by a penny to 46 cents. The Postal Service … More:…
Irony Abounds As Food Stamps AboundAmerican Thinker (blog)Recession has caused that "The SNAP/Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is … distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever."&nsbp;&nsbp;Providing much needed relief to those hit hardest by … More: continued here
New York Daily News Postal Service raises price of stamp to 49 centsNew York Daily NewsWhen it comes to stamps, postal customers are taking a licking. The Postal Service hiked the price of a stamp to 49 cents Sunday — a 3-cent increase and the largest in more than a decade. RELATED: STAMP RATES GOING…
Price of stamps goes up three centsfox6now.comOne way around the increases is buying Forever Stamps now and using them any time for first-class mail, the kind used by most consumers. Launched in 2007, Forever Stamps are always valid, no matter what people paid for them and even if prices go up in … More: continued here