Heather Fletcher

Heather Fletcher

Heather Fletcher is senior content editor with Target Marketing.

USPS Prices Go Up on Sunday
January 20, 2017 at 10:14 am

At 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, First Class stamps will cost 49 cents. USPS says it will also increase postage prices on other products, such as Standard Mail, periodicals and package services. USPS says the postage increases are happening because of the removal of an exigent surcharge...

How Trump Won (and What It Tells Marketers)
January 12, 2017 at 12:38 pm

Yesterday during his press conference, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to bring jobs to the states whose voters helped him win. Just what does that mean? Examining how Trump won the election matters—because many believe it was his campaign’s command of data that put him over the top...

USPS Gets OK for 2017 Price Increase
November 18, 2016 at 8:00 am

USPS prices are going up in 2017. First Class mail goes from 47 to 49 cents on Jan. 22, with other products seeing varying price increases. On Tuesday, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approved all postage raises USPS requested, except for special services price adjustments...

Congressmen Ask for 2.15 Percent USPS Rate Increase
June 17, 2016 at 8:00 am

After business hours on Wednesday night, a catalog association warned its members that USPS may get half of its exigency rate hike back. First Class postage dropped from 49 to 47 cents in April when USPS lost its 4.3 percent exigent surcharge imposed as a result of its losses during the Great Recession...

USPS Requests May 31 Rate Hike
April 21, 2015

The U.S. Postal Service may raise postage rates by as much as 2 percent on May 31. First, though, the Postal Regulatory Commission needs to approve the request USPS submitted at 4:20 p.m. on Thursday.