Another View: Repeatedly raising the price of stamps doesn’t work

It’s hard to keep track of ever-increasing stamp prices.

This month, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) proposed hiking stamp prices in July from 68 cents to 73 cents, a 7.4% increase. In January, USPS hiked the price of first-class Forever stamps from 66 cents to 68 cents. Six months earlier, the agency raised prices from 63 cents to 66 cents. And six months before that, stamp prices increased from 60 cents to 63 cents.

Postal leadership claims that these painful pricing changes are necessary to get the USPS back into the black.