How You Can Help Avert Another Rate Hike Disaster

Second, you should know that the Postal Service already is making noise about needing another billion dollars to accommodate some expenses that have flowed from the new postal law — the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA) — which went into effect at the beginning of this year. In a nutshell, postal officials say it’s essential that the USPS have “one more bite at the apple” to set appropriate postal rates and classification baselines before stepping into the brave new world of living within the constraints of an inflation-based price cap.