Postal Rates for Many Charity Mailings Expected to Rise on May 14

By Peter Panepento

Charities will soon pay an average of 6.7 percent more on postage for fund-raising letters and other types of so-called nonprofit standard mail.

Most of those new rates are expected to take effect on May 14.

Nonprofit periodical rates will also increase, by 11.7 percent on average, but those rates do not take effect until July 15.

The governors of the U.S. Postal Service said organizations need more

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