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For the second time in 2016, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will be changing its rates on April 10th, 2016. \u00a0The good news is that this time rates are\u00a0decreasing\u00a0for USPS Mailing Services products.\u00a0 What Are The Changes? Here is a summary of the April 2016 postage rate updates: – First Class Mail Letters (1\u00a0oz.) rates\u00a0will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":247802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-247801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carriers-usps","tag-postage-rates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nUSPS Announces Postage Rate Decrease - Starts April 10, 2016 - Stamps.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"USPS Announces Postage Rate Decrease - Starts April 10, 2016 For the second time in 2016, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will be changing its rates on April 10th, 2016. \u00a0The good news is that this time rates\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stamps.com\/article\/usps-announces-postage-rate-decrease-starts-april-10-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"USPS Announces Postage Rate Decrease - 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