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It varies from year to year for the cost of postage stamps. Right now in 2010, it cost around 44 cents for stamps..
Ordinary first class stamps cost 44 cents in 2010.
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First ounce for First Class Postage was .29
Yes, postage stamps require that you pay for them. That is how the postal service gets its revenue so that it can do business. Postage goes up when the cost to deliver exceeds the cost taken in.
The cost was 3 cents for the first ounce.
44 cents
In the US postage stamps are always valid. You do still have to have enough to cover the current postage cost. And Forever stamps are always valid for one ounce of first class mail, regardless of the actual cost.
First class postage was 37 cents for the first ounce in 2005. A post card cost 23 cents.
Yes, their value will increase when the cost of postage goes up. And you will pay the current cost for stamps at the post office.