Get ready for the price of THIS to go up in August-and a delivery slowdown

• You'll pay more for stamps starting in about a month.

• The U.S. postal service is hiking stamp prices from 55 cents to 58 cents starting on August 29.

• Back in the 1970s, stamps started out at just 8 cents.

• Higher postage prices are also coming with slower delivery times as part of Postmaster Louis DeJoy's plan to stop billions of dollars in losses.

• Officials note that a lot of mail will now take two additional days to reach recipients.

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