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The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is raising rates for its more profitable express-mail and priority-mail shipping next year as part of its efforts to stave off bankruptcy. The new prices, effective Jan. 22, amount to an across-the- board increase of roughly 5 percent. They are in addition to a previously announced 1-cent increase in first-class mail to 45 cents, also set for Jan. 22.
