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In article <00713334718@elgamy.sccsi.com> elg@elgamy.sccsi.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
>Actually, *NO* tax money goes to support the U.S. Postal Service. It is, in
>fact, producing a profit -- which is then taken away from it along with

Hmmm, I read in the Austin American-Statesman yesterday (8/11/92) that
they were (or will be) running a $2 billion deficit.  This was in an
article about how the new guy running the place has new ideas on how to
save money.  One thing he's done is put on hold the plan to increase a
first class stamp to $0.35 in 1984.

>The biggest problem, of course, is that there is currently a law
>prohibiting competition in the first-class mail arena, so to that extent we
>are "subsidizing" the U.S. Postal Service (by allowing it to charge prices
>higher than an independent service would charge). I would suggest that in
>the typical business, though, this isn't too big a problem. Bulk mail
>advertisers, on the other hand, throw fits over the whole situation.

Really?  I always thought they got nice discounts for mailing in bulk
as well as pre-sorting.  Look at some junk mail sometime, you'll see
prices from $0.11 and up if memory serves.

Later,
Brendan
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