No Price Increase in January 2026
We’re starting the fall with some positive news for our industry: the U.S. Postal Service has announced there will be no price increase for Market Dominant products in January 2026. That means First-Class Mail, Marketing Mail, and Periodicals will hold steady until at least mid-year.
This is a welcome break after years of twice-a-year rate hikes that made planning and budgeting a challenge. Postmaster General David Steiner explained that the USPS is striving to balance revenue needs with affordability, and for now has chosen to forgo a January adjustment.
A big thank you goes to our associate member, the Saturation Mailers Coalition (SMC), for their tireless work in representing mailers’ concerns in Washington. Their consistent advocacy, along with the efforts of other postal partners, has helped bring attention to the burden of frequent and unpredictable rate increases.
As SMC Executive Director Donna Hanbery put it:
“SMC – along with numerous other USPS associations, mailers and stakeholders – have been urging the USPS, the PRC and Congress to take steps to eliminate the punishing two-times-a-year pattern of Postal Price increases. It is encouraging to see that the new PMG may be listening.”
This is good news to factor in as we all begin working on our 2026 budgets and planning for the year ahead.
And once again, a big thank-you to our friends at SMC for keeping these issues front and center. Their work makes a real difference for all of us.
We’re starting the fall with some positive news for our industry: the U.S. Postal Service has announced there will be no price increase for Market Dominant products in January 2026. That means First-Class Mail, Marketing Mail, and Periodicals will hold steady until at least mid-year.
This is a welcome break after years of twice-a-year rate hikes that made planning and budgeting a challenge. Postmaster General David Steiner explained that the USPS is striving to balance revenue needs with affordability, and for now has chosen to forgo a January adjustment.
A big thank you goes to our associate member, the Saturation Mailers Coalition (SMC), for their tireless work in representing mailers’ concerns in Washington. Their consistent advocacy, along with the efforts of other postal partners, has helped bring attention to the burden of frequent and unpredictable rate increases.
As SMC Executive Director Donna Hanbery put it:
“SMC – along with numerous other USPS associations, mailers and stakeholders – have been urging the USPS, the PRC and Congress to take steps to eliminate the punishing two-times-a-year pattern of Postal Price increases. It is encouraging to see that the new PMG may be listening.”
This is good news to factor in as we all begin working on our 2026 budgets and planning for the year ahead.
And once again, a big thank-you to our friends at SMC for keeping these issues front and center. Their work makes a real difference for all of us.