Anyone who needs stamps might want to head out and grab
them before the United States Postal Service’s latest price
hikes go into effect this weekend. (FOX NEWS)

The cost of a "forever" stamp for first-class mail is rising from
63 to 66 cents Sunday as part of increased mailing prices
approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission earlier this
year at the request of the USPS. The USPS said it needed more
money in part due to high inflation.

The first two stamps printed by the U.S. Postal Service
featured Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.

The United States Postal Service issued its first-ever postage
stamps on this day in history.

The first postage stamps produced by the United States Postal
Service (USPS) were sold in New York City, according to the
USPS website.

The two stamps came in two designs and sold for five cents
and 10 cents. (FOX NEWS)

Sir Rowland Hill is a British inventor credited with inventing
the first postage stamp.

On May 5, 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. 
was launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space
capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel
into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes
and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere,
was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).

(AP) – The United States Postal Service officially announced the
price of Forever stamps and other postage will go up on Jan. 22,
2023. The move has been anticipated for months after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in August that increases would be
necessary to keep up with costs. Inflation was expected to add
$1 billion to the Postal Service’s operating budget. 

The USPS plans to increase prices of affected postage by 4.2%,
which amounts to a few cents per stamp. The cost of a Forever
stamp would go up 3 cents, from 60 cents to 63 cents. The price
of Forever stamps just went up in July from 58 cents to 60 cents.

A year ago, the stamps cost 55 cents.

Postmaster general Louis DeJoy (65).

On September 28, 1941, the last day of Major League Baseball’s
regular season, the Boston Red Sox’s Ted Williams got six hits
in eight at-bats during a doubleheader in Philadelphia, boosting
his average to .406. He becomes the first player since 1930 to hit
.400. "I guess I’ll be satisfied with that thrill out there today," he
tells the Boston Globe about hitting .400. "… I never wanted
anything harder in my life."

In addition to his .406 batting average—no major league player
since Williams has hit .400—the left fielder led the big leagues
with 37 homers, 135 runs and a slugging average of .735.

Williams, nicknamed “The Splendid Splinter” and “The Thumper,
” began his big-league career with the Red Sox in 1939.