Don’t Take This Year’s Postal Increase Lightly

The worst news was that it would take effect this spring, just a year after the final postage increase under the old Postal Reorganization Act. Under that long-since-outdated system, which was created during a labor strike just before the Beatles broke up, catalogers suffered through the kinds of paralyzing rate increases that put many out of business. They got hammered at the end of the 1980s, two or three times in the ’90s and just last year.