When mailing things, cost counts. This is especially true if you are sending lots of care packages to a deployed service member, or mailing stuff to a family stationed overseas. Sometimes, the United ...

Here we go again — another hike in the price of postage and other mailing costs. But if you need to mail small packages, there might be a break. Forever stamps offered by the USPS cover the cost of a ...

Hoosiers who need to mail or ship something by USPS might want to do so by Saturday, Oct. 4. The United States Postal Service is temporarily changing its prices for the holiday season. The agency ...

The flat rate boxes offered by the U.S. Postal Service can be an attractive shipping option for small businesses. The flat rate negates the need for weighing or measuring a package before shipping, ...

When you take a package to the post office or a private shipping company or order something online, you face a variety of shipping options. Some of these are affected by how much your item weighs, its ...

The U.S. Postal Service on June 3 filed an “experimental” rate case with the Postal Rate Commission (PRC) to give its Priority Mail customers two flat-rate box options. In its filing, which could be ...

The United States Postal Service, UPS and FedEx are all popular choices to ship packages. While USPS typically offers the cheapest options, UPS and FedEx prices are competitive. All three carriers ...

If you are planning to send gifts or letters this holiday season, it will cost you more than usual. The U.S. Postal Service is raising prices for a limited time during the peak holiday season this ...

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Twitter can be a terrible place, but it’s also full of fun facts. Here’s one for today: it’s impossible to exceed the 70 pound weight limit of the US Postal Service’s (USPS) small flat rate box. The ...