I am visiting the US and I have just spent the last ten minutes unsuccessfully googling to try to find the cost to mail a first class letter. I get all kinds of ads for fancy stamps, for cost of mail-order, an ask.com window that was unable to answer my question, but no list of postal rates.
44 cents for up to one ounce.
Up to one ounce-44 cents.
BTW-- one rate will take your letter anywhere in the US–whether from Alaska to Florida, Hawaii to New York City, or just next door.
Pretty darn quick, too.
And to US territories like US Virgin Islands or Guam.
Mail going here must be sealed with a piece of bubbleguam.
If you can buy “Forever” stamps, do so. If the postage rates go up in the future, you can use them on first class mail without having to buy extra stamps to make up the difference between the old and new rates.
Can I ask what terms you tried to google? “cost of a first class stamp” returned the answer with the first hit and “cost of a first class letter” had relevant info in the top two (the answer being in the second hit).
And to military bases overseas, if you use a U.S. APO address.
US Postal Service’s site is horrible to the point of hair-pulling.
Really? I just went to usps.com, clicked “Calculate Postage,” and clicked “First-Class Mail Prices.” Two clicks to find what the OP was looking for is “horrible?”
For that matter, you could have asked almost anybody and they could have told you the answer. The desk clerk at your hotel, your hosts, the clerk in the store where you bought an envelope, etc.
If the OP had brought a laptop and/or signed into Google with an account that was set to a different default location, that search may not have had the same results.
I couldn’t have told you. I can usually tell you what price it used to be, a feat accomplished by merely checking the stamps in my drawer.
And to naval ships at sea, if you use a FPO address.
This implies you can send a letter from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea, without even worrying about the wind chill.
Why would that be a factor?
I sense the wind chill has dropped another couple more degrees from the massive whoosh that just blew by.
That was enjoyably subtle…
FYI: A first-class letter for 44 cents is limited to a certain size (standard #10 envelope will do); it can’t be lumpy or square or over an ounce or there is an additional charge.
