Word: postally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...price of a first-class stamp has gone up again, to 29 cents. Should we resign ourselves to these continuous increases in postal rates...
...would the Postal Service be the only company in the U.S. that's unaffected by inflation? People fly into a paroxysm when their postage goes up, and they see it as a sign of inefficiency. I guess a quarter to 29 cents is a lot easier to understand than a $500 billion savings and loan bailout. I am just amazed. Everything else goes up. Postal rates will go up. But people have every right to expect that they ((the rates)) should go up at less than the rate of inflation and relatively infrequently. Certainly this increase in February doesn...
...large a deficit is the Postal Service running...
...take a step forward and take a step back. We are concerned because eventually the American people will pay that. It's just a stamp tax. And when we raise postage rates to accommodate that, people say, "Oh, this idiotic, inefficient, unfeeling, bureaucratic Postal Service!" We can't go out and teach civics to 250 million people. In 1991 our budget was to make $1.2 billion. Now with this legislation we lose $1 billion. For the next rate increase it means more, sooner...
Inside the meeting, council members sharply criticized Lamft's proposal, saying it would have no impact on the postal problems...