{"id":39404,"date":"2025-11-19T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/?p=39404"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:03:01","slug":"postal-rates-going-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/?p=39404","title":{"rendered":"POSTAL RATES GOING UP AGAIN!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The USPS is out of control on post rates &#8230; when I started this business about 11 years ago it cost $1.15 to mail and First Class Package under 4oz with tracking now that rate is about $8 at the Post Office and over $5 online. to ship that same under 4oz package. This far exceeds the rate of inflation &#8230; and out glorious congress regardless of side is doing nothing. <br>So that means I have to raise rates, I try not to but for some zones I&#8217;m already paying more than I charge. There is the cheaper shipping for $1.50 on decals with stamps, these do not have tracking or guarantees with that said I&#8217;m had few with stamps lost than with Tracking go figure?<br>Anyway here are the new increases from the USPS &#8230;<br><br><strong>5.1% increase for Priority Mail Express service<br>6% increase for Parcel Select<br>6.6% increase for Priority Mail service<br>7.8% increase for USPS Ground Advantage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full article here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2025\/11\/us-postal-service-announces-major-increase-in-prices.html\">US Postal Service announces major increase in prices<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USPS is out of control on post rates &#8230; when I started this business about 11 years ago it cost $1.15 to mail and First Class Package under 4oz with tracking now that rate is about $8 at the Post Office and over $5 online. to ship that same under 4oz package. This far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39405,"href":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39404\/revisions\/39405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdecals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}