The Postal Service's recent announcement of another rate increase has started (expectedly) to incite complaints from the public, as though nothing else is going up in price.
The one-penny rate hike, effective May 12, represents "the second increase in about a year", whines The Messenger, a newspaper in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
The Messenger in an editorial in today's edition says:
And concludes: "It may be time for Congress to revisit the issue, asking whether it has been made too easy for the Postal Service to put its stamp of approval on rate increases."
Wonder who's out there miseducating a Midwestern paper and prompting calls for Congress to kick the postal reform tires?
The Messenger in an editorial in today's edition says:
"Never mind that inflation in general may not reflect the Postal Service's expenses. And never mind that the new system does not provide the incentives for efficiency that existed in the past.
And concludes: "It may be time for Congress to revisit the issue, asking whether it has been made too easy for the Postal Service to put its stamp of approval on rate increases."
Wonder who's out there miseducating a Midwestern paper and prompting calls for Congress to kick the postal reform tires?
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