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During the summer of 2010, the USPS requested the Postal Regulatory Commission to raise the price of a first-class stamp by 2 cents, from 44 cents to 46 cents, to take effect January 2, 2011. On September 30, 2010, the PRC formally denied the request, but the USPS filed an appeal with the Federal Court of Appeals in Washington DC .
Postcard stamps increased to 44 cents from 40 cents and the cost to ship international letters increased 10 cents to $1.40, according to the Postal Service website.
Postcard stamps increased to 44 cents from 40 cents and the cost to ship international ... postal officials increased the price of most of its first-class mail up to 10 cents to “help achieve ...
The Postal Service last raised First-Class stamp prices ... the USPS said that the “price adjustments are needed to ... Other changes include domestic postcard prices increasing from 53 cents to ...
Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847. [20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.
Among the most definitive is George Washington, whose engraving (along with that of Benjamin Franklin) appeared on the first U.S. Postage stamps released by the U.S. Post Office, on July 1 of 1847. Thomas Jefferson first appeared on U.S. postage in March 1856, nine years after the first issues were released.