Dead Tree: The Reality of Reduced Postal Rates Is Stranger Than Fiction

That imminent decrease in the price of Forever Stamps and other postage? Fuhgeddaboutit. It was just a joke.

"You really thought we were going to reduce the cost of mailing? April Fools," laughed Ben Dover, the U.S. Postal Service's VP of Pricing and Pencil Pushing, at a meeting of clearly not amused mailing industry representatives today. Previous USPS announcements said the cuts would take effect on April 10, when the Postal Service's "exigent" surcharge expires.