Postal Reform -- Congress Must Deliver

"If things keep going on the way they are now, the current rate case is just the tip of the iceberg," notes Leo Raymond, director of postal affairs for the Mailing & Fulfillment Service Association (MFSA), one of about four dozen associations hammering away at Congress and the White House for needed reform relief. "Next year the USPS will have to go back to the Rate Commission and ask for another rate increase to raise more money to put into the 2007 escrow payment. Every year there is a new payment, and every year the payment goes up.