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Why is the US Postal Service increasing the price of stamps?

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Why is the US Postal Service increasing the price of stamps?
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The Postal Service is run like a business, and postage is its primary source of revenue. Costs to deliver mail (wages, gasoline, etc.) have risen, and prices to buy stamps have had to be raised as well.
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Because of increased costs, mainly higher fuel costs for distributing mail.
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I think it has to do with E-mail. And they are rasing the stamp rate on Jan. 8th. This Sunday!
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The US Postal Service is a quasi-independent agency of the government, and does not rely on tax money for operation.
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