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This week's Press section carries a story on the increase in postal rates, which concerns not only your own use of the mail but also your continued access to the information and enjoyment provided by magazines like ours. For, as the story explains, the increase in postal rates creates a critical challenge to magazine publishing. The story does not explain what Time Inc. has done in tne Past to help the post office speed delivery of your magazines, and what we continue to do with most of the 750 million pieces we mail each year...
Decades back we were among the first companies to label, sort and bundle our products by postal areas. Today, our new computerized process of getting your magazines from the press to you is the fastest operation of its kind in the world, with perhaps the least demand on U.S. postal employees and equipment. Despite high costs we incur for performing services ordinarily handled by the Postal Service, we pay the same second-class rates as publications that must be handled individually at every step. Time Inc. does not want to discontinue these services, from which both the post office...
...March 2 the cost of mailing a first-class letter will go up from 8? to a dime, an increase of 25%. Most Americans will feel that bite of inflation at once, but another may go unnoticed at first. On the same day, a new jump in second-class postal rates, which affect magazines and newspapers, will take effect. This increment is the first installment of a 40% rise to be spread over the next 28 months. It comes on top of a fiveyear, 145% rate hike begun in 1971. The new increase, being imposed on a compound basis, means...
...water and 82% gasoline, with such a low output of pollutants that the engine does not need the mileage-robbing emission-control devices required on new cars. Similar results are reported by University of Oklahoma Professor Walter Ewbank, who is testing a gasoline blend containing 13% water on some Postal Service trucks...
...tries to comply. As a state legislator during the Depression, he often got as many as 250 men snow-shoveling jobs at $3 or $4 a day; as a Congressman, he was able to find 3,000 youngsters Christmas jobs at the Boston post office-before the non-political Postal Service was created. "I run a public-service agency," he says...