It’s just a lousy half penny
Read it and weep. The sales tax will hit 8.75% come Sunday.
And how about that nice 2-cent raise in the postage rate? I think it was well deserved, based on the phenominal performance of the US Postal Service this holiday season. They lost two of my Netflix movies (only one has since turned up) and another particularly important piece of mail I sent took three weeks to get to it’s destination.