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THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2006
Our View
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As inevitable as death and taxes are postage increases. When the U.S. Postal Service this month announced it planned to raise rates again, public reaction was, “Didn’t we just do that?” Yes, in January. But the Internet has hit Uncle Sam’s mail system in the pocketbook. While there are ever more households in America, there are ever fewer first-class letters. Newspapers have developed alternative delivery systems, so they are not utilizing the postal service as much, either. “Expect an increase a year for a while,” experts say. “The Postal Service has to make a lot of changes to survive into this millennium.”
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