For those who send optional snail-mail, what would be the maximum amount you'd be willing to spend on a stamp?

Already past that point, about 50 cents.

No limit . . my wife makes 55 to 65 handmade cards a month.

One holiday a month like “National Grandparents” day and birthday cards.

I use paper email so rarely nowadays that it really wouldn’t matter to me. Perhaps I send 1–2 letters/month.

A couple years ago I bought several sheets (25–50 stamps/sheet) of commemorative Forever stamps and I have slowly been using them. So stamps prices haven’t really affected me.

I just put the cards in the mail and it was about 60 to 70 cards, at 73 cents per stamp. That was about 50 dollars, I calculated. The cards are photo cards printed. I bought 120 of them for about 140 dollars. It’s nuts – almost 200 dollars for Christmas cards to print and mail. Yes, I ordered more cards than I need because if I ordered too few and had to print more, it would cost more than if I just order 120 right off the bat.

As.much as it takes to get the stuff mailed and not returned to sender.

Stamps are one way for the post office to recoup the hit they’ve taken because of the internet.

I remember my father griping loudly when first class mail went from 3 cents to 4 cents. I was a youngster and I had a lot of penpals, so it affected me. In those days, you could still mail for 3 cents if the envelope wasn’t sealed. Most Christmas cards came in with the envelope flap tucked but not sealed.

Today’s rates would have been unimaginable.

I still hold the U.S. postal service in high regard, though, for their speed (yes) and efficiency even through all the abuse.

But @Jerbua…you could build a house for $35,000 then and sell it for $190,00 10 years later.
If people were making the same income today as they were 40 years ago, of course it would be unfathomable.

@Dutchess_III The post office makes quite a bit off delivering packages, especially Amazon. More than stamp sales.

Of course. But every little bit helps.
99% of my Amazon packages are delivered from UPS.

I mailed 4 holiday cards yesterday. I had forever stamps for the cards also, I had no idea how much a card stamp costs now until I read it on this Q. The stamps are little pieces of art, I love that. I have some abstract art stamps, and some DC cherry blossom stamps, and some popsicle stamps.

Since I mail very few things it is not a big deal, and the forever stamps are awesome. I put menorah stamps on all of my Christmas cards this year, because that was the holiday stamps I had left in my stash. LOL.

I think 90 cents is my line where I would complain about the price. Objectively, sending a piece of mail across the country for less than a dollar is kind of amazing. The USPS is an amazing part of US history, delivering mail to all parts of the US, some places are quite remote. The attack on our mail service is quite upsetting to me, but that is another topic.

We are so accustomed to the USPS being very inexpensive that I think we don’t adjust easily to the price increases.

It gets really expensive when you are doing a mailing for a big wedding or for people who send out 50 holiday cards. Between the cards and the postage it really starts to add up.

@JLeslie it adds up, sure. But think of the cost of gas – $2.99/gallon when it used to be 46 cents. Or a cup of coke was 10 cents and now it’s $1.29. And so on.

It’s annoying but it’s also the world we live in.

@elbanditoroso True. Even 15 years ago I had a hard time adjusting to prices. My head is stuck in 1995. Lol.