New Changes Part Of "Delivering For America Plan"

While you might not use the post office as much as you did years earlier thanks to text messages, FaceTime, and email allowing us to stay in contact easier, the post office still delivers 318 million pieces of mail a day.

In 2025 the price of all that mail is going to be going up both in Montana and across America as part of a 10-year plan to revitalize the post office.

What Is the "Delivering For America Plan?"

The "Delivering For America Plan" was started in 2021, and its goal is to modernize the post office, maintain a 6-day mail delivery system while expanding to a 7-day package delivery system, invest in and grow their employees, innovate to grow revenue, and gain financial stability.

If that sounds expensive, well, it is. To generate the money needed to make these changes, they have slowly been increasing prices like they did with stamps back in July of last year. So what increases will you see this year?

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Stamps Will Not Be More Expensive This Year

These changes and increases in price aren't coming; they are already here as of January 19th, 2025, thanks to approval by the USPS Board of Governors.

This year you will see an increase to the following:

  • USPS Ground Advantage: 3.9% average increase
  • Priority Mail Service: 3.2% average increase
  • Priority Mail Express Service: 3.2% average increase
  • Parcel Select: 9.2% average increase

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