USPS raises Forever stamp price to 82 cents starting Sunday

Once again, the U.S. Postal Service adjusts the price of connection — raising the Forever stamp to 82 cents this Sunday, a quiet but cumulative reminder that the infrastructure of human correspondence carries its own weight. The increase is modest in isolation, yet it arrives as part of a longer arc of rate adjustments driven by inflation, labor costs, and the paradox of maintaining a vast delivery network as the volume of physical mail steadily recedes. In its small way, the Forever stamp has become a cultural artifact: a hedge against time, a wager placed today against the certainty that tom