{"id":632,"date":"2015-05-08T10:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gofranklingo.wordpress.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2018-07-13T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T08:02:14","slug":"postage-rate-increase-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/postage-rate-increase-may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Postage Rate Increase &#8211; May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 7, 2015 the PRC approved a rate increase applied for by the USPS. \u00a0The increase goes into effect May 31, 2015 and applies to all classes of mail.\u00a0On average the increase is less than 2%. \u00a0The increase for Standard Mail is about 1\/3 to 1\/2 a cent and First Class Mail is about a penny.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Your increase will depend on factors such as sort level and where your mail is dropped &#8211; locally or at a SCF (Sectional Center Facility) \u00a0or NDC (National Distribution Center). Mail drop shipped to those facilities can expect discounts from $0.03 to $0.04.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>EDDM (Every Door Direct Mail) goes up to $0.183. \u00a0The second ounce on First Class Mail continues to be free.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>For a rate chart comparing existing rates with the new rates please <a href=\"http:\/\/ereply.us\/Postage_5.31.2015.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>NOTE: \u00a0There may be a postage <em>decrease<\/em> later in 2015. \u00a0The exigent price increase that went into effect in January, 2014 is expected to run out late summer or early fall of this year. \u00a0The matter is presently in litigation, but if the rollback is approved, postage may go down by roughly 4%.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 7, 2015 the PRC approved a rate increase applied for by the USPS. \u00a0The increase goes into effect May 31, 2015 and applies to all classes of mail.\u00a0On average the increase is less than 2%. \u00a0The increase for Standard Mail is about 1\/3 [&#8230;]<\/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":[33,34,38,43,45,92,94,95,102],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-posts","tag-direct-mail","tag-direct-mail-budget","tag-direct-mail-spending","tag-direct-mailers","tag-drop-shipping","tag-postage","tag-postage-increase","tag-postage-rates","tag-postal-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}