Great stamp picture! Between the rate increases and the mess of lack of delivery and accountability, there is no hope for the USPS.
sharp graph. excellent color palette and texture.
We have direct marketing (junk mail) to thank for the rate increases.
I love the graphic! Very nice!
I think I told you how incredible it is that we can still send first class letters for under $1! There are some places where it costs the equivalant of $10 U.S. to mail a letter
Posted by: Tom on Mar 13, 07 | 9:55 am
Thanks everyone! I like how the graph ended u looking like a stamp. Originally I was just gonna put the graph onto a stamp shape. But then when the 42 ended up in the corner, I figured that it would be neat to make it really big since A) it would look like a stamp. B) 42 is the hot new number that stamps are might be going up to, so might as well punch that number big.
Posted by: spudart on Mar 13, 07 | 10:02 am
Here's the specific years that had a stamp cost increase:
1945: 3
1958: 4
1963: 5
1968: 6
1971: 8
1974: 10
1975: 13
1978: 15
1981: 18
1985: 22
1988: 25
1991: 29
1995: 32
1999: 33
2001: 34
2002: 37
2006: 39
2007: 42
Posted by: spudart on Mar 13, 07 | 10:02 am
It's still pretty amazing that I can write a letter, put it in my mailbox, and it shows up in California, Washington state, or Hawaii a few days later.
I'd be willing to pay a buck for that service.
Posted by: abhay on Mar 14, 07 | 11:04 pm
I also think it's amazing that when you sign up - and pay for - the USPS's Premium Forwarding Service at the Loop post office station, that they are unable to get the paperwork from the counter to the basement of the same building to put the forwarding in place! And it wasn't long ago when calling Europe from the US was a dollar a minute.
I am willing to pay the fair and accurate cost for a service. But when the service costs are not justifiable, and most of the payroll is stocked with people that don't believe in accountability, that is when I stop sending thru USPS and pay more for the reliable and accountable UPS.
I agree it's amazing at how little it costs to do so much, but I also agree it wouldn't be such an issue if alot of things went paperless... bank statements, creditcard bills and everything else. either way, as gas prices rise, its only expected for them to raise the price of stamps so that way the're using less tax dollars and more internal revenue to pay for mailing letters.
Posted by: Goody on Mar 20, 07 | 1:18 am
To everyone commenting how little it costs to send a letter, Don't forget that some of your federal taxes go to paying for the letter to be sent. The Government gives the USPS millions a year. You are really paying a higher pricer per letter than just the stamp.
Posted by: David on Mar 22, 07 | 1:22 am
Someone that is very smart figured out that it's only 2.5% return on the forever stamp.
http://www.fatwallet.com/t/52/714356/
So yeah, that's not very good investment. Posted by: spudart on Mar 26, 07 | 1:09 pm
Historicaly, the rate increase is equil to the cost of living. Please show graph showing this fact.
Posted by: Coleman Miller on Mar 31, 07 | 9:13 pm
In reply to David on Mar. 22 07 1:22am
The postal service is by law self-sustaining. And in fact contributes to the national government.
Posted by: Coleman Miller on Mar 31, 07 | 9:29 pm
In response to Coleman Miller on March 31, 2007:
The USPS is funded by five sources. (1) mail and services revenue; (2) reimbursements from Federal and non-Federal sources; (3) proceeds from borrowing; (4) interest from U.S. securities and other investments; and (5) appropriations by Congress
Posted by: Katie on Apr 14, 07 | 12:30 pm
Nice graph, but the price for a stamp is rising to 41 cents, not 42 cents on May 14, 2007.
Posted by: Chris on May 07, 07 | 2:19 pm
oh snap! 41 cents. woops! Thanks for pointing that out, Chris.
Posted by: spudart on May 07, 07 | 7:20 pm
Nice graph. What font did you use?
Posted by: Jay on May 14, 07 | 9:11 am
Just seems a little high to me, I think it passed a psychological threshold. I'm paying ALL my bills online from now one.
Posted by: Dan on May 18, 07 | 7:17 pm
The good thing about the stamps is that they finally have a real value. Since with the email, which does not need a stamp, unfortunately, these things are going to worth a lot. Maybe we will invent a virtual stamp, who knows?
If the price is 41 not 42, please change this graph. Your website is one of the first to pop up in Google and is very confusing!!
Posted by: ConfusedStamper on Aug 30, 07 | 1:35 pm
Confusedstamper, what is the search term you used? I tried various different searches and this blog entry does not show up.
My son paid $16.25 to send a card. He had never mailed a letter before and must not have been unaware that the price should be less than a dollar. When I spoke to the supervisor at the P.O, he readily admitted that it is their policy to "offer the highest quality service first" i.e. to rip off the consumer if at all possible. Lesson learned.
Posted by: Failedtoteachmykidthepriceofastamp on Nov 24, 07 | 1:07 am
nice graph! you also present the heirarchy pricing of Postage stamps. Still the good thing is that they finally have real value. Posted by: us postage stamps on Feb 05, 08 | 12:53 am
To me the most amazing is that the curve is almost as steep in the past 20 years as in the super high inflation decades 70’s and 80’s!
Shows what liars the Fed and Greenspan were and Bernanke is when saying with a straight face the inflation was/is contained
Posted by: Ingvar Strom on Feb 12, 08 | 4:50 am
The stamp vending system then authorizes the purchase order, prints the stamp sheet(s) and finally dispenses them to the consumer. The ability to peruse, request, authorize, print, and dispense a stamp purchase using the Internet makes these the world's first browser-based stamps.
$ 0.32 of that price rise is inflation. So the real cost has has increased by less than half. A first class stamp today, at 1958 prices, would be $ .0573. Pretty good measure of inflation.
Posted by: Steve Schmotaloka on Mar 24, 08 | 7:44 pm
this graph sucks its 92 dollors
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Posted by: george on May 20, 08 | 9:11 am
THIS IS AN AWSOME GRAPH EXEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THE YEARS ARE SO SMALL I THINK THE OUT LINING SHAPE IS THE BEST COOL I LOVE THIS SITE
Posted by: george on May 20, 08 | 9:14 am
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Posted by: george on May 20, 08 | 9:22 am
where i am from it is not 42 cents it is 12 dollars
i mean really isn't that soooooo cheap
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Posted by: Hugo on May 20, 08 | 9:47 am
The price of the stamp is again on the rise unfortunately. Sending virtual emails might be the best way of minimizing costs.
Just loving the graphic! 8/10 very nice
I think there exist a virtual stamp in some part of the world as we speak. China is researching on that now.
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