Achieving Discounts -- New Numbers, Same Advice

But, regardless, even if a truckload of mail can be accumulated, does the cost of moving it to a destination outweigh the value of any destination entry discount? Can intermediaries or less-than-truckload shippers be engaged to merge several mailers’ volume and make a discount possible? Perhaps more than with the other forms of worksharing, the basic equation is cost vs. discount. Nonetheless, the Postal Service continues to encourage mailers to consider destination entry and to offer rates adequate to make the proposition worthwhile, under the right circumstances.