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

[BumRushDaShow]

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

[FakeNoose]

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

I guarantee it.

[Miguelito Loveless]

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

Does it include Amazon?

[PSPS]

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

[hlthe2b]

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

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]

5. Temporary. Yeah, right.

[groundloop]

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

Yet another government entity ruined by tRump and Elmo.

[RobinA]

7. That Was Called

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?