Shipping to Alaska and Hawaii with USPS
Shipping to Alaska and Hawaii, Puerto Rico or Guam: type the ZIP Codes, and the calculator reads the zone and prices every USPS service.
Independent site, not the Postal Service: prices read in its own price files.
Example: a 2 lb package from 10001 to 96813· change a figure to see yours
Cheapest at the Post Office today
$19.80
USPS Ground Advantage, zone 8, 2 to 5 days
| Ground Advantage at the Post Office (2 to 5 days) | $19.80 |
| Priority Mail at the Post Office (2 to 3 days) | $22.55 |
| Priority Mail Express at the Post Office (1 to 3 days, guaranteed) | $74.80 |
| Cheapest online label today (Ground Advantage) | $13.42 |
| Cheapest at the Post Office from Jan 17, 2027 | $20.81 |
| Service | Post Office now | Online now | Post Office from Jan 17, 2027 | Online from Jan 17, 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Advantage | $19.80 | $13.42 | $20.81 | $13.63 |
| Priority Mail | $22.55 | $17.22 | $23.20 | $17.46 |
| Priority Mail Express | $74.80 | $66.29 | $84.75 | $71.65 |
Compiled by Radif Partners · How the prices are built
Shipping to Alaska and Hawaii with the Postal Service costs the same as any domestic trip of the same zone: the price tables of Notice 123 have no separate column for Alaska or Hawaii, only zones. From New York, Honolulu and Anchorage are both zone 8 in the official zone chart, the highest mainland zone; from Seattle, Anchorage is zone 6. A 2-pound Priority Mail package from New York to Honolulu costs $22.55 at a counter, Ground Advantage $19.80. Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are zone 8, where Priority Mail costs far more, $22.55 for 2 pounds, while Ground Advantage keeps its zone 8 price, $19.80. Flat rate boxes ignore the zone completely: the Medium box costs $25.80 to Honolulu or Guam as to the next town, which makes it the cheapest way to send heavy items there. Ground Advantage takes longer to these places than the 2 to 5 days quoted for most trips.
Zones for shipping to Alaska and Hawaii
The table gives the Priority Mail zone from four large cities, read in the chart effective November 1, 2026. The West Coast is closer to Alaska and Hawaii in zone terms, but both stay in the high zones from almost everywhere.
| To | From New York (10001) | From Chicago (60601) | From Los Angeles (90012) | From Seattle (98101) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honolulu, HI | Zone 8 | Zone 8 | Zone 8 | Zone 8 |
| Anchorage, AK | Zone 8 | Zone 8 | Zone 8 | Zone 6 |
| San Juan, PR | Zone 7 | Zone 8 | Zone 8 | Zone 8 |
| Hagåtña, Guam | Zone 8 | Zone 8 | Zone 8 | Zone 8 |
The flat rate box is the island option
A flat rate box costs the same to Honolulu as across town, so the heavier the package, the more it saves. From zone 8, a Medium Flat Rate Box beats Priority Mail by weight from a few pounds on; to zone 9 it wins almost from the first pound. Ground Advantage is the other cheap route to Guam because it charges zone 9 like zone 8.
Price to Guam, Puerto Rico or Alaska
Example: a 2 lb package from 10001 to 96910· change a figure to see yours
Cheapest at the Post Office today
$19.80
USPS Ground Advantage, zone 8, 2 to 5 days
| Ground Advantage at the Post Office (2 to 5 days) | $19.80 |
| Priority Mail at the Post Office (2 to 3 days) | $22.55 |
| Priority Mail Express at the Post Office (1 to 3 days, guaranteed) | $74.80 |
| Cheapest online label today (Ground Advantage) | $13.42 |
Addresses and timing
Write the full ZIP Code: in Hawaii, Alaska and the territories several prefixes share an island or a region, and the chart lists some 5-digit exceptions that the calculator applies only when it has all five digits. For gifts, count extra days for Ground Advantage, since the Postal Service warns that packages to these places can take longer than its usual 2 to 5 days.
For military addresses abroad, the Large Flat Rate Box has a lower APO/FPO price on the flat rate page. The zone chart page gives the zone of any other pair, from New York to Anchorage zone 8.