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BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts) Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:31 PM Sep 30

Sending packages this holiday season? USPS to raise prices for limited time

Source: Staten Island Advance/SiLive

Published: Sep. 30, 2025, 11:54 a.m.

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 year to help cover extra handling costs.

It will affect prices on several services, including:

Priority Mail Express
Priority Mail
USPS Ground Advantage
Parcel Select

The temporary rates will go into effect on Oct. 5, and remain in place until Jan. 18, 2026.

Read more: https://www.silive.com/news/2025/09/sending-packages-this-holiday-season-usps-to-raise-prices-for-limited-time.html

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Sending packages this holiday season? USPS to raise prices for limited time (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 30 OP

Once their prices go up they'll never come back down FakeNoose Sep 30 #1

Oh, great. Welcome to "surge pricing" for government services. Miguelito Loveless Sep 30 #2

Oh, quit your whining!! Just be thankful that billionaires don't have to pay taxes!!111!111!1!1! PSPS Sep 30 #4

Starting October 5th? Geebus... I guess Amazon is just going to get all the business, if that is true. hlthe2b Sep 30 #3

Temporary. Yeah, right. no_hypocrisy Sep 30 #5

IF your packages arrive at all. USPS has been AWFUL the last several months. groundloop Sep 30 #6

That Was Called RobinA Oct 1 #7

FakeNoose

(39,493 posts)

1. Once their prices go up they'll never come back down

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:34 PM

Sep 30

I guarantee it.

Miguelito Loveless

(5,356 posts)

2. Oh, great. Welcome to "surge pricing" for government services.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:53 PM

Sep 30

Does it include Amazon?

PSPS

(15,103 posts)

4. Oh, quit your whining!! Just be thankful that billionaires don't have to pay taxes!!111!111!1!1!

Reply to Miguelito Loveless (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 04:06 PM

Sep 30

hlthe2b

(112,136 posts)

3. Starting October 5th? Geebus... I guess Amazon is just going to get all the business, if that is true.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 04:05 PM

Sep 30

I do have one gift I could probably get boxed up and mailed in time, but how does one explain sending Christmas gifts on October 4th?!!!

no_hypocrisy

(53,773 posts)

5. Temporary. Yeah, right.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 04:38 PM

Sep 30

groundloop

(13,433 posts)

6. IF your packages arrive at all. USPS has been AWFUL the last several months.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 06:55 PM

Sep 30

Yet another government entity ruined by tRump and Elmo.

RobinA

(10,453 posts)

7. That Was Called

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Oct 1, 2025, 12:07 PM

Oct 1

price gouging in my day. And, I'm bad at math, but doesn't the fact that each of those additional packages get paid for when mailed cover the cost of handling the additional packages?

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