Download or read book Subsidized Postage written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Curtailing Indirect Federal Subsidies to the U S Postal Service written by Sherri Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Postage Subsidies for Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Periodicals mail was the biggest money loser for the Post Office, contributing nearly $400 million to the department's deficit that year.26 The postage on periodicals covered only about a quarter of the delivery costs.27 As before, taxpayers made up the shortfalls through annual appropriations.28 Congress addressed this problem and many others afflicting the Post Office by enacting the Postal Reor [...] Congress justified this extension on the basis of publishers' economic hardship-the industry claimed it was suffering from the significantly increased postage rates.36 Despite the PRA's changes to the law and the postage increases, periodicals did not cease to be subsidized. [...] According to Postmaster General Potter, the USPS delayed the new periodicals rates to give periodicals mailers time to adjust to the new and very different postage schedule.45 The PRC was concerned that periodicals as a class had "low cost coverage;" it made no contribution to the USPS's institutional costs, and had failed to cover all its attributable costs.46 Thus, the PRC recommended rates that [...] Some magazines and newspapers, sharply criticized the rate increases in editorials, and expressed concern that the higher rates imperiled their existence, thereby threatening free speech and the free flow of information.49 Sensing the dissension, the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia held a hearing on October 30, 2007. [...] In the case of The Nation, the cost of mailing the magazine is already more than three times the cost of the paper on which it is printed.

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Download or read book Adjustment of Postal Rates written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Postal Revenue Foregone Subsidy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations and Services and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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