2022 Postage Rate Chart Changes!

The Postal Service filed new rates with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) for Market Dominant Rate Changes.

These rate changes will officially go into effect on Sunday, July 10, 2022. These rates are proposed until deemed final though much pre-work was done to pre-validate these changes.

Highlights:

First Class Mail –  First Class Mail will likely see average increases close to 6.5%,  though this will vary by category:

• Single Piece Forever Stamps will go from 58¢ to 60¢ which is an increase of 3.4% or $0.02 per piece
• First Class Presorted Letter Rates will go up on average 6.9% or $.030 per piece
• First Class Presort Flat Rates will go up on average 9.2% or $.128 per piece

Nonprofit Marketing Mail Letters – Marketing Mail Letters are predicted to increase between 4% – 6.5%

Overall Marketing Mail Flats  – Marketing Mail Flats are going up 8.5% which includes both Commercial and Nonprofit mail across ALL categories (Carrier Route, Auto, Non-Auto).

When you look specifically at Nonprofit Automation Rate changes we see that:

• Nonprofit Flats 4 oz or less are will increase an average of 12.2% or $.044 per piece.
• Nonprofit Flats Greater than 4 oz are charged based on a Piece AND a Pound Rate and the changes look like this:
  • Average increase of 30.9% or $0.041 per piece at the piece level AND Average increase of 1.77% and $0.014 at the per pound rate