A stroke of good news for marketers! There will be no USPS postage increase in January 2015. This is significant, because every January, the USPS has the opportunity to raise postage rates, and although they have raised rates for the last several years, they opted not to raise rates this year.
As of April 10, 2016, new rates are in effect. For details about the new rates, see our blog post here.
Postage rate increases are permitted annually as long as the rate increase falls below the annual rate of inflation; however, in 2014, the USPS sought special permission to raise rates in excess of the rate of inflation, and the USPS Board of Governors permitted it.
Essentially, because of the excessive 2014 postage rate increases, the USPS has not been permitted to raise rates in January 2015. It would be more comforting to say that rates will not be raised at all in 2015, but it’s not that simple. The situation with the excessive increase in 2014 is unprecedented so it’s really an unknown if postage rates will be raised at all later in 2015.
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