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From article <1992Aug12.140816.1360@novell.com>, by bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner):
> 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

It could be a "will be" situation. Currently, the Post Office doesn't run a
"real" deficit, but it does run a "paper" deficit (caused by Congress
taking a portion of the money earned by them and applying it to "deficit
reduction").

>>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.

When you are mailing out 10,000,000 pieces of mail, the difference between
$0.10 and $0.11 is substantial.

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