Is there a weight limit for a letter that you send in the mailbox?

Question

I'm sending a letter to a friend in a different state, and where I live and where I'm sending is both in the US. I'm sending some photographs and other clippings of newspaper and stuff, and I was wondering if there was a weight or thickness limit to a letter that I send from my own mailbox.

Any answers?

Answer 1

No there isn't but I'd send it as a package

Answer 2

I don't think theres a limit, but heavier letters are more expensive.

Answer 3

I found this statement on the web under us postal rules. Maybe it'll help you.

Starting Monday, July 30, customers can use one of several convenient online postage applications — available 24/7 — or an Automated Postal Center, if they wish to mail items that weigh more than 13 ounces in Postal Service collection boxes or Post Office lobby mail slots; or if they wish to leave the items for pickup by their letter carriers. Online postage applications include the Postal Service’s Click-N-Ship service on usps.com and PC Postage from an authorized USPS vendor.

Answer 4

If it exceeds weight limits who ever it is being sent to will get charged the extra cost. My boyfriends dad sent our son a birthday card with a magnet attached to it, and the magnet was to heavy and so the basic first class stamp wasn't enough to cover it. We had to pay like 13 extra cents in this little slip the mail man left in our mail box. He shipped it from D.C. to WI. I didn't realize there were weight restrictions like that either, it was a freakin birthday card.

To be safe you might as well add extra postage so you don't put the charge on who ever is receiving the letter.