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.
They are reporting what demographers refer to as their age at last birthday . In that sense, age is always rounded down in demography, so that age reported as 35 years old really means that the person is somewhere between 35.0 years and 36.0 years. The measurement of age at last birthday can be contrasted with measures of exact age.