The U.S. Postal Service has sent an email reminder to P.O. box holders to renew before January 22nd, 2023 as fees paid on or after that date are subject to new rates:
Advance Notice to POBOL PO Box Customers – January 2023 Price Change.
If your PO Box renewal fees are due in January, and you would like to renew at the existing rate, please visit usps.com/poboxes to renew before January 22, 2023. Fees paid on or after that date are subject to new rates.
You have several convenient payment options. Choose the one that works best for you:
- Pay Online: Go to usps.com/poboxes and click Renew, which will take you to the Manage Your Account page. Then, click Renew PO Box to make a one-time payment. Your credit card will be stored for future automatic renewals.
- Pay at a self-service kiosk (SSK): You can find an SSK by visiting PO Locator and selecting “Self-Service Kiosks” from the drop down menu.
- Pay by mail: Send a check or money order payable to “U.S. Postal Service” to the Postmaster where your PO Box is located. (Include your PO Box number on the face of the check.)
- Pay in person: Pay at the Post Office where your PO Box is located, using cash, check, credit card, or debit card.
New P.O. Box Rates January 22, 2023
Up Huff
Government services are NEVER priced equitably. Not possible for them to make money otherwise, even though government is not supposed to be a money maker.
Paula D
The post office does not deliver to my street and so I have no choice but to have a PO Box. If I want to get mail, I MUST have a PO Box and pay more and more.
We have someone at the head of the Postal Service that seems to want to drive the PO out of business and put in the hands of corporate delivery. Costs go up, service goes down, and I seriously doubt the average worker’s salary has not kept up over the years. Perhaps if worker’s pay was better, they’d be able to do a better job, though in the small post office branch near me, the people (yeah, once in a while do make a mistake) are extremely nice, friendly and helpful especially if they are treated well by the customer.
But am I happy with huge leaps in costs? I don’t think so!
Up Huff
Private businesses are invariably better at delivering a service at a price that is typically less than what government charges. If it were not so private businesses would fail because customers would go elsewhere.
Examples are FEDEX, UPS, and similar. If they didn’t offer a service at a price better than their competitors (in this case the USPS), they would not survive.
TheHand
My Size 2, 5″x5.5″ was $60 a decade ago, $90 2018 and is $226 now if I pay early last years 2023 rate.
So sick of these clowns. I only got a POB in 2008 because the USPS delivery was giving away my mail every other week since the 90’s and 2002 forward it was packages they were giving away every other week and delivery confirmation just meant they scanned it as delivered before leaving at someone else’s house that kept them.
I can’t figure out what the new rate will go up to if I pay after Jan 21st, it looks to say $102 per 6 months, but $102×2 is $204 and even with 9.75% s.tax for TN would be under $224.
They burned me for an extra several $100 dollars the last few years though. I had auto-payment at USPS that paid Jan 15th every year and I would receive emails for renewal saying the old years price being due by Jan 31st, but then when the auto-payment happened Jan 15th night around 2am on the 16th since central time zone, it would charge the new rate, which sometimes was $40-$50 higher than what the email bill said. Then the USPS workers would refuse to give me a refund even showing them the email receipt and date paid or contacting online, they just tell me I can cancel my box, but may not have any available in the future.
Same with the informed delivery, they only email me 99% of the time junk mail that shows up at my POB, like We Buy Houses garbage, not my actual bills or important mail. Like one year the rate jumped up near $50, they left a flyer paper in the POB a couple days before you would be charged the new rate, but they didn’t send me an informed delivery on that or any notice at all about paying by the 21st. This year 2024 is the first year I have ever received an email that said if I don’t pay by the 21st that the amount shown due by the 31st would be the new higher ‘not shown’ rate. It’s been like an intentional scam for over a decade of these clowns telling you you have until Jan 31st and you show up the 28th or whatever to pay only to find out it’s a higher rate than the shown 31st due amount and then you get burned again when you have auto-pay thinking well it pays the 15th, that’s before the 21st and I’ll be damned if they don’t again rip you off at the higher rate even though the f-ing email says you have the lower rate until the 31st with your sorry ***!
It’s like a racket, we will make sure to be incompetent with your mail to where you don’t receive it, including your packages, unless you pay us an ever rapidly increasing amount, so you can pay to do our job for us and drive your *** to USPS to get your mail that you should be able to receive for free. On top of it we’ll play gotcha games by lying about how much is due and charging you a new higher mystery rate every year to couple years before the due date we email you. You guys are some kind of b s.
Elizebeth B. Sherrill
Year before last, I received a notice that my package arrived at the po. It was my husband’s CHRISTMAS PRESENT! I went to the post office and it wasn’t in my box. They put it in the WRONG BOX and the person who got it kept it. The USPS did NOTHING about it. I got no refund, nothing. I was furious. I ended up having to go, physically, to a store to buy him another gift. We keep on getting horrible service, full of mistakes, and end up having to pay more! This is sick. Of course, the USPS has been a crock for years now. Par for the course for the society we have become. I’m so sorry you have so many problems with the post office. Please know … you are not alone!
DESIREE SAMPLE
Dont choose $62 every three months they make you pay $248 instead of $216 for the year for 2023. Then you cannot cancel auto pay.
CHASBAKER
The next time I hear that inflation is under control I’ll be tempted to try to start a national protest using postal box rates as a prime example.
Kay
WHY is my small P O Box tripling in price? Yearly rate was $58 – new fee will be$147 which is rediculas
Up Huff
It happens because there is no competition.
Margaret Goode
I have a small post box and live in a rural area. Last year, my rate was $84.00. I thought it was outrageous. This year, my rate is $210.00. Now I hear that stamps are going up to .66. What can I, as a retired widow with a limited income, do?
Guest
May you please upload PO Box Caller Fee Rate Table for business/private business/ public business/ and government entities? I need to verify and confirm why our Caller fees went from $705/ Semi-Annually to $740 when paying in the office? Thank you.