Isn't this the kind of thing we all NEED to know?!

Price For Stamps Goes Up Posted: 1/7/2006 Starting Sunday (Jan. 8) it will cost you more to send mail. The price for mailing a first-class letter will go up to 39 cents.
A federal law passed in 2003 requires the U.S. Postal Service to put more than three billion dollars into an escrow account by October of this year. And, with rising costs, another rate hike is likely next year. The last rate increase was back in 2002.

OK, correct me if you think I'm wrong but Angelina Jolie being pregnant with Brad Pitt's child has been all over the news and the internet. Even those who are not generally knowlegable of pop culture nonsense seem to know it. But the USPS raising the price of a stamp, which actually affects everyone in the country, is announced barely above a whisper?