How You Can Help Avert Another Rate Hike Disaster

Your focus now must be on the future. Not the future of five to 10 years from today, but the future of what’s likely to happen over the next 12 months.

The Postal Service already has learned a “novel” lesson from this last round of rate increases. The postal chieftains have discovered that the punitive rates assigned to those who mail larger than letter-size (flat) mail pieces has sorely affected flat-mail volume. The volume of flat mail now reportedly is at a level that was last seen immediately after the anthrax crisis.