{"id":142,"date":"2011-11-03T08:57:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gofranklingo.wordpress.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2018-07-13T02:05:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T08:05:23","slug":"how-far-does-your-44-cents-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/03\/how-far-does-your-44-cents-go\/","title":{"rendered":"How Far Does Your 44 Cents Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When mailing a letter that weighs about one ounce, the U.S. Postal<\/p>\n

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Service\u2019s 44 cents is one of lowest First Class postage rates. Whether<\/p>\n

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you are mailing a letter locally or sending a greeting card across<\/p>\n

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country, it still only costs 44 cents now, but will increase to 45 cents<\/p>\n

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in January. The graph below compares the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s postage<\/p>\n

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rate with other countries. As you can see, Norway charges the highest<\/p>\n

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rate, which is nearly four times the cost U.S. rate.<\/p>\n

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Some might feel it is reasonable for the Postal Service to increase<\/p>\n

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rates and charge a\u00a0 fee comparable to those in other countries. On the<\/p>\n

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contrary, others might say the Postal Service\u2019s rate must remain at an<\/p>\n

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affordable level, especially for people with lower incomes. They might<\/p>\n

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also say raising the rate to a level found elsewhere would drive<\/p>\n

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customers away even faster.<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0 Mail Geeks Group on LinkedIn.com<\/em><\/p>\n

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When mailing a letter that weighs about one ounce, the U.S. Postal<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Service\u2019s 44 cents is one of lowest First Class postage rates. Whether<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

you are mailing a letter locally or sending a greeting card across<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

country, it still only costs 44 cents now, but will increase to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23,95,132],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-posts","tag-compare-postage-rates-in-other-countries","tag-postage-rates","tag-usps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}