USPS rates: every service by weight and zone

USPS rates for every package service on one card. Pick a weight and a zone to read all prices side by side, counter and online.

Independent site, not the Postal Service: prices read in its own price files.

Packed, box included. Up to 70 lb

0 to 15.9; 16 oz make 1 lb

Example: 2 lb, zone 5· change a figure to see yours

Lowest USPS rate at the Post Office today

$14.85

USPS Ground Advantage · Media Mail apart (books and media only): $5.13

Ground Advantage (2 to 5 days)$14.85
Priority Mail (2 to 3 days)$17.85
Priority Mail Express (1 to 3 days, guaranteed)$62.20
How this is computed
2 lb in zone 5. Online = Commercial price of a label bought on usps.com; Media Mail has one price everywhere.
ServicePost OfficeOnlinePost Office from Jan 17, 2027
USPS Ground Advantage$14.85$10.50$15.37
Priority Mail$17.85$14.02$18.70
Priority Mail Express$62.20$54.41$62.94
Media Mail$5.13$5.13$5.13

Compiled by Radif Partners · How the prices are built

USPS rates for packages come from one price list, Notice 123, and depend on the service, the weight and the zone, a distance band from 1 to 9. For a 2-pound package in zone 5, the middle of the distance scale, the Post Office charges $14.85 by Ground Advantage, $17.85 by Priority Mail and $62.20 by Priority Mail Express, in the prices in force from October 4, 2026 to January 16, 2027. Media Mail, for books and recorded media only, costs $5.13 for 2 pounds at any distance. Labels bought online pay the Commercial rates, $10.50 and $14.02 for the same Ground Advantage and Priority Mail package, 29% and 21% less. The flat rate items ignore weight and zone: the Medium box costs $25.80 at a counter. On January 17, 2027 the proposed rates with the 11% fuel surcharge put the zone 5 package at $15.37 by Ground Advantage and $18.70 by Priority Mail. Letters are apart: a stamp stays at $0.82.

USPS rates at the Post Office, zone 5

Zone 5 sits in the middle of the scale; the calculator above gives every other zone. Media Mail is shown with its 1-pound minimum, since it charges by the pound.

Retail prices in force October 4, 2026 to January 16, 2027, Notice 123.
WeightGround AdvantagePriority MailPriority Mail ExpressMedia Mail
8 oz$9.35$14.05$46.00$4.39
1 lb$11.70$14.05$53.85$4.39
2 lb$14.85$17.85$62.20$5.13
5 lb$18.85$24.20$91.30$7.34
10 lb$24.25$30.75$132.95$11.02
20 lb$37.90$51.25$194.55$18.39

USPS rates from January 17, 2027

The same weights in the proposed file of November 12, 2026, with the 11% fuel surcharge added by this site as the Postal Service announced. The Postal Regulatory Commission reviews the filing before that date.

Proposed base price plus 11%, docket CP2027-1.
WeightGround AdvantagePriority MailPriority Mail Express
8 oz$9.38$14.82$45.34
1 lb$11.93$14.82$54.17
2 lb$15.37$18.70$62.94
5 lb$19.04$24.53$89.36
10 lb$24.92$32.41$133.26
20 lb$37.63$52.11$192.20

All rates for your weight

Example: 2 lb, zone 5· change a figure to see yours

Lowest USPS rate at the Post Office today

$14.85

USPS Ground Advantage · Media Mail apart (books and media only): $5.13

Ground Advantage (2 to 5 days)$14.85
Priority Mail (2 to 3 days)$17.85
Priority Mail Express (1 to 3 days, guaranteed)$62.20
Back to the full calculator at the top →

Reading the rate card

Start from the weight of the packed box and round up as the Postal Service does: by ounce steps under a pound for Ground Advantage, by the pound above. Find the zone of your two ZIP Codes on the zone chart page. Then compare the columns: Ground Advantage is usually the lowest, Priority Mail is a day or two faster, and the Flat Rate Envelope at $13.90 beats both for a heavy document going far. For a single answer with your ZIP Codes, use the shipping cost calculator.

Questions people ask before they mail

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Where does USPS publish its rates?

In Notice 123, the official price list, published on Postal Explorer as a web page and as a spreadsheet with one sheet per product. Each price change brings a new file. This site reads the files of July 2026, October 2026 and January 2027 and shows their figures with the date they were read, with no rounding of its own.

Are commercial rates only for businesses?

No. Commercial prices apply to anyone who buys a label online on usps.com with Click-N-Ship, with no account volume required, as well as to shipping software users. For a 2-pound Priority Mail package in zone 5 that is $14.02 instead of $17.85 at the counter. Media Mail has a single price.

Which USPS rate applies to a box over one cubic foot?

The larger of its weight and its dimensional weight: length times width times height, in inches, divided by 139 and rounded up. A light but bulky box can therefore cost the rate of a much heavier one. The rate card here assumes boxes under one cubic foot; the dimensional weight page does the size check.

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Cost to ship a package

Every USPS service for your weight and ZIP Codes, at the counter and online, today and in 2027.

Zone chart by ZIP Code

The zone between two ZIP Codes, read in the official chart, and what each zone costs.

Online or at the Post Office

What a label bought online saves against the counter, service by service.

January 2027 price increase

What changes on January 17, 2027 for your package, against today and July 2026.

Postal Service price files, manual chapters and filings behind this page (6)

Each price, rule and zone was read in these documents on November 13, 2026.

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Prices are read from the Postal Service price files, never estimated. They leave out pickup, special handling, hazardous material and any extra service you add at the counter. The January 17, 2027 prices are proposed and await review by the Postal Regulatory Commission.