Direct Mailers May Face Postal Rate Increase

Postmaster General Jack Potter told attendees of the National Postal Forum that the USPS will file a case for a proposed rate increase as early as later this month, according to Multichannel Merchant. The increase will likely be only a single-digit percentage, he said, but it's necessary because the Postal Service cannot cut costs fast enough to offset inflation. He pointed out that, while mail volume reached a new high of 212 billion pieces in 2005, more than 100,000 jobs had been eliminated.