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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
End all non-profit and bulk postage discounts. It might be less revenue in the end, but it'd be a lot less junk mail and a hiring freeze would eventually lead to attrition by retirements instead of lay offs.
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I agree non-profit and other special discounts should go. But bulk and periodical mail is where the PO makes its money. The PO has to deliver 1st class whether they have 1 piece or 100 on the route, but they only deliver bulk mail if they have a certain amount of weight or pieces. They don't make anything sending a truck out two miles from the PO to deliver a 46 cent 1st class letter, but add 100 pieces of bulk mail to the truck at 17 cents and the trip becomes profitable.