Postal Rate Increases Stick it to Nonprofits
February 17, 2009 by Amanda Brandon
Filed under Business
Doesn’t it seem like postage rates just keep going up? It’s unfortunate that the United States Postal Service continues to report massive losses. In yet another rate increase, nonprofits stand to shell out 10 to 50 percent more in postage, according to an article in The Nonprofit Times (USPS Smacks Nonprofit Mailers Again).
Different classes of mailers will see the increase in postage rates.
In light of this and the current economy, does your organization find it is cutting back on postage? Are you looking for less expensive mailing options? Are your relying more on e-communications?
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I honestly don’t blame the USPS for upping their rates all the time. What company out there looking to make money would pick up a letter and walk it to someone’s address for $.40?
Except that it’s not a case of one person walking up to your house to take your one letter and then immediately walking it to (say) your friend’s house 2000 miles away for 41 cents (soon to be 44 cents).
Maybe your mail carrier is different, but mine carries mail for about 50 residences all around mine. Plus he has 7 or 8 other stops with similar numbers of delivery points.
When I leave a piece of mail for him, it joins hundreds, thousands, millions of others, inserted into a mostly automated system that sends my mail (and all the rest) by plane, train, or truck, as required.
They plead poverty, but they have plenty of money to give letter carriers and administration continuous large raises.
But see, when you give people and organizations the right to vote themselves bread and circuses, they do. And the post office is one of our biggest bread and circus federal agencies.