First Class Mail Letters (1 oz.) rates will increase from $0.47 to $0.49 when purchased at the Post Office. 1  Each additional ounce will cost $0.21. 2  The discounted âMetered Mailâ category for First Class Mail Letters (1 oz.), which includes online postage providers and postage meters, will decrease from $0.465 to $0.46.
A recent New York Times story calls a 69-year-old woman elderly. Philadelphia Metro considers 70 to be elderly. When NPR ran a story recently about a 71-year-old midwife, some readers objected to the word elderly in the original headline.
Medicare says you are elderly and age-qualified to be what they call a beneficiary at age 65 Age 50+ AARP in the U.S. starts at this age Again, these are conventional ages and quite U.S. centric! Looking or feeling frail may be something that is a more significant indicator of being elderly these days.