Postage and Shipping

Used currently (2010) for First Class standard envelope domestic postage for a letter weighing from 1 to 2 ounces.

The postage rate in 1997 was 32 cents. It was raised from 29 cents in 1995. It went to 33 cents in 1999.

The average price depends on numerous factors. Are you trying to determine the cost over the life of the US Post Office? Or what the cost of a first class letter, or perhaps even the average weight of a letter.

Rotary printing is the most common production method for postage stamps today. In the early days of printing, a large flat plate was used to print a sheet at a time. Now that flat sheet has been curled into a cylinder which allows one to feed a continuous sheet of paper through the printing press. Even sheets can be fed through in a much more efficient way. There are some stamp issues that have been printed using more than one printing method. Others have been printed with the cylinder horizontal to the image and vertical to the image, creating a slight variation in the image size, even if the same master die was used. Identifying the printing method can make a difference in the value of a postage stamp. The US 1912-1918 series of stamps are an example of types that require careful study, particularly in the coil issues, as some of the flat plate varieties are very valuable, while the rotary are worth much less.

From which country? To where? Domestic postage within the United States for a 1 ounce flat size envelope or card (this size does not qualify as letter size or postcard size) is: 88 cents. Additional ounces are 17 cents.

It will cost you 94 cents to mail a one-letter from the US to Korea.

The rate went from 34 to 37 cents on June 30 2002. It went from 37 cents to 39 cents on January 8 2006. That is for the first ounce of first class postage, each additional ounce was 23 cents.

The next day, unless the person (or company) takes a while to ship the item(s)

Many envelopes will have a box in the top right corner which says something about the postage. If does not have that, you usually place the stamp in the top right corner of the envelope. If you have issues, then you should go to your Post Office.

The post office will cancel both of them, if amount is sufficient, the letter will be mailed.

The "Time for Greatness" Kennedy campaign stamp is one of five different such items used in 1960. The general value of all of these are $15-25.00 for a full sheet of 100 stamps. Harvey Goldberg, Director - Kennedy Political Items Collectors.

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The Forever stamp costs what ever the current rate is for one ounce of US Postage. That is currently 44 cents. It will be valid to mail one ounce 'forever' regardless of how much it cost originally.

The 8 cent cent stamp covered the cost for a first class stamp beginning on 16 May 1971. The rate was valid until March of 1974. At that point the postcard rate became 8 cents.

A First Class postage stamp cost 3 cents in 1946.

The "Penny Black" is considered the first ever postage stamp. It was introduced by the British for entirely internal use in 1840. It was called the "Penny Black" because it was black and it cost one penny. The only design was Queen Victoria's head. Other denominations (and colours) were introduced once the idea caught on internationally. The portrait of Queen Victoria was taken from a medal by William Wyon, as adapted in a sketch by Henry Corbould. It was engraved by Frederick Heath and recess-printed by Perkins Bacon & Co. When the British first introduced postage stamps, it was only ever considered to be for internal use, so a country name was not considered necessary however, as time went by and more countries caught onto the concept of pre-paid postage, they continued to not put the country name on their stamps because they were adequately identified by having no country name and Queen Victoria's head.

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US postage rate increases -- for ordinary first class letters

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June, 1932 up to 3 cents from 2 cents.

July, 1958 up to 4 cents

Jan , 1963 up to 5 cents

July, 1968 up to 6 cents

May, 1971 up to 8 cents

June, 1974 up to 10 cents

June, 1976 up to 13 cents

June, 1978 up to 15 cents

May , 1981 up to 18 cents

Nov , 1981 up to 20 cents

Feb , 1985 up to 22 cents

June, 1988 up to 25 cents

June, 1991 up to 29 cents

Jan , 1995 up to 32 cents

June, 1999 up to 33 cents

Jan , 2001 up to 34 cents

June, 2002 up to 37 cents <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< so 37 cents is your answer.

Jan , 2006 up to 39 cents

May , 2007 up to 41 cents

May , 2008 up to 42 cents

May , 2009 up to 44 cents

Yes, but that would be foolish. Buy some one-cent stamps to make up the 42 cent postage and save those 41 cent stamps.

Robert Indiana

This stamp is not at all rare, but is over 60 years old, so mint copies are not

as common as they were and 2 cents was not the regular first class rate,

although unsealed cards went at that rate.

A dealer would charge from 10 to 20 cents for it mint or used.

The buying price from one large dealer is $1.50 per hundred used.

Unused in sheets you can probably get more than face.

I believe you are referring to the Bobcat pictured on Scott US #2482. It has a good value unused, it can be purchased for $7.95, a dealer might pay a couple dollars for it.

In 1990 the first class stamp was 25 cents. For a postcard it was 15 cents.

They do this for the same reason passenger take two or more planes to reach their final destination. Large ships carrying 4200+ containers transport them across large distances, such as oceans. It is not efficient for them to make many stops for each shipment of containers. The containers are offloaded at large ports and are loaded on smaller feeder ships, carrying around 1000 containers which travel to the final destinations.