USPS May Raise Rates, After All

A year after an industry alliance helped defeat a proposed exigent rate increase by the U.S. Postal Service, the price hike may go through after all, as part of a larger plan to save the troubled institution, which is rapidly approaching insolvency...they have been dusted off by the Obama administration as a possible, partial solution to USPS financial woes.

Periodicals are one of the least profitable mail classes for the USPS, partly because of repeated rejections by the PRC of proposed rate hikes. Catalogs and other types of direct-marketing solicitation, classified as “standard,” are also less profitable than first-class mail,