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To the editor:
In response to your editorial of March 8 on the Postal Service, I must say that we should reevaluate the grade the Postal Service received from the Rappahannock News. The grade may have been based a little too much on emotion to be truly fair. Let’s try one more time if we could.
The new postage rate proposed by the Postal Service is to be 30 cents for a letter beginning in 1991. For that price, you can mail a letter to any one of about 90 million destinations in the United States, its territories and oversees military bases and know it will be delivered.
I mighfaddlhat of the 161.6 billion pieces of mail delivered last year, (that’s 654 pieces for every man, woman and child in the country) an estimated 10 percent or 16.2 billion pieces were not addressed properly and were still delivered. You may want to try calling home today, only this time dial the wrong number and see if the telephone company gives you the same service!
Also, just how does the price compare to that of our industrialized neighbors? The closest to the U.S. postage rate is Switzerland at 33 cents, a country roughly the size of Maryland. If we use country size as a base, then what should we pay to mail a letter? Or let’s compare technological leaders. In Japan you would pay 43 cents and West Germany 60 cents! My, but the rates seem to be going up, do they not?
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