United States Postal Service Rate increases

It was said there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes. There’s a third and that’s a price increase from USPS!

Here’s what USPS is changing on January 18th:

• Ground Advantage: Rates for shipments up to 15.9 oz will go up by 4% on average, while most shipments between 10-20 lb will actually get up to 26% cheaper 🥳

• Priority Mail: Most Priority Mail rates are increasing by up to 13%, except for 11-20 lb which is actually getting up to 8% cheaper.

• Priority Mail Flat Rate: Most Flat Rate packages are getting cheaper by 10 to 20 cents, except Medium and Large Flat Rate Boxes which are getting 15 and 30 cent increases.

• Priority Mail Express: Priority Mail Express rates are increasing by an average of 2%, except for PME Flat Rate Envelopes which are dropping 10-15 cents.

• USPS International: International shipping rates are increasing 4-8% on average.

• Simple Export Rate: SER rates are going up by $1-2, but it remains the cheaper rate.

Most of my customers use USPS Ground Advantage. I wonder how UPS will respond? Will we see similar rate increases?