Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez You may have noticed that, lately, your online shopping packages are arriving a little earlier—or later—than expected. Why? As of April 1, 2025, the U.S. Postal Service ...

How much have package prices changed with the seasonal increases? From Oct. 3 through Dec. 25, the US Postal Service will increase the cost to ship parcels from 25 cents to $5 depending on the ...

Updated April 21, 2022 at 12:21 PM ET. More of your mail is about to get slower. First it was letters and now some packages may take longer to arrive.. The U.S. Postal Service currently considers ...

The renovations unveiled Wednesday are part of a planned $40 billion program to modernize the postal system nationwide.

Currently, USPS aims to deliver all First-Class packages in two or three days. Beginning May 1, that will shift to just 68%, with 17% taking four days and 15% taking five days.

While it’s better to mail those packages sooner, the United States Postal Service says there’s still time to ship them and get them to where they’re supposed to be by Dec. 25, you may just ...

The post office says customers are already using it this year after it shipped 1.1 billion packages last holiday season, while many of us were stuck at home.

That optimism came despite USPS seeing a volume decline of 175 million packages, or a 2.4% dip, in fiscal 2023. Increased rates offset those decreases and package revenue grew by $324 million, or ...

More of your mail is about to get slower. First it was letters and now some packages may take longer to arrive.. The U.S. Postal Service currently considers a first-class package to be late if it ...