No Planned Increase for Stamp Prices

Americans will continue to pay 44 cents for first-class stamps in 2010 and the price to mail catalogs and magazines will also stay the same, according to an internal Postal Service memo.

"Simply stated, there will not be a price increase for market dominant products including First-Class Mail, Standard Mail, periodicals and single-piece Parcel Post," Postmaster General John E. Potter said in a memo sent to Postal staffers and some customer groups late last week and obtained by The Eye on Monday. (Read it below.)