Obama Supports Postage Increase: Is He Dissing the Print Industry?

The Obama Administration proposed above-inflation increases in postage rates Monday, just a week after the Postal Service indicated it had backed off of just such a rate hike for fear of hurting the printing industry. The President released a deficit-reduction plan that would “permit USPS to seek the modest one-time increase in postage rates it proposed a year ago.”

A week earlier, Deputy Postmaster General Ron Stroman explained in an interview why the Postal Service had decided not to pursue such an “exigent” rate increase: “One of the things we have seen in ongoing discussions with the print industry is