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Accordingly, early last week the FBI set up a surveillance on Kathleen Soliah's postal box in San Francisco and discovered that mail was being picked up by messengers and taken to two addresses: 288 Precita Avenue and 625 Morse Street...
...chief administrative law judge, Seymour Wenner. He favored lowering first-class postage to 8½? while sharply raising rates by 122% for second class (newspapers, magazines) and 67.6% for fourth class (parcel post, records, books). Wenner's reasoning: first-class users were assuming more than their share of postal costs, "subsidizing" other classes and turning the Postal Service into a "tax collection agency, collecting money from first-class mailers to distribute to other favored classes...
Wenner's views appalled many postal officials, including Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar. He felt that sharply higher second-and fourth-class rates might actually work to cut Postal Service volume and revenues and thus "ultimately drive first-class rates even higher than anyone has proposed...
...five-member Postal Commission evidently agreed. It repudiated Wenner's method of calculating mail costs and concluded that first-class users were not being penalized. The commission said that the 10? rate, which has been in effect on a temporary basis for the past 18 months, should be made permanent. That move, under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, allows the Postal Service Board of Governors, the final arbiter, to authorize raising rates by 33% over the current ones within 100 days, again on a "temporary" basis. The governors could hold off or change the commission's recommendations...
While the Postal Rate Commission rejected Wenner's proposals, it came up with other recommendations, among them one that would raise the second-class rates so crucial to publishers and their readers by 42% over the next four years. That new increase, which the Postal Service is expected to adopt this week, comes on top of other second-class rate rises totaling 127% since 1971. While the latest jump is far less than the 122% proposed by Wenner, the increase-not to mention others that are certain to come along between now and 1980-poses an economic threat...