For 2009, the cost of a postage stamp started at $0.42. Starting May 11, 2009, the cost of a postage stamp rose to $0.44. The cost of postage stamps started May 11, 2009 per ounce was $0.44 each additional ounce was $0.17 and postcards were $0.28.
If you go to www.usps.com it has a postage calculator in it. $.49 for 1ounce letter in the USA is the start.Actually the cost for domestic one-ounce letters is only 44 cents in the US.
That depends where you are mailing it from. You need to say which country you want to post it in.
98 cents is the cost of sending an ordinary letter to most overseas destinations, including Switzerland from the US. To Canada the rate is only 75 cents; 79 cents to Mexico.
The US domestic rate for an ordinary 1st-class letter was 44 cents in Nov. 2009.
It is postage.
It is known as postage.
$1.40
I just mailed a letter to Switzerland from the US yesterday, and it cost $0.98.
44 cents
.44
postage