There’s a run on the post office today as Americans snap up first class stamps before they cost a penny more on Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. If the 42-cent price seems insignificant, just think of Netflix, which sends and receives nearly 2 million parcels a day, and pays both ways.
Small businesses and Christmas card senders are also stocking up, but regular folks should take notice: The price hike is the first under a new law that allows the USPS to raise prices on “competitive products” like Express mail as it sees fit. “The idea of the new law was that we would be a more business-like operation," one official said. (More USPS stories.)