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January 4th, 2010 | 
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The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA) changed the way the Postal Service sets rates. It divided postal services into two broad categories: market dominant (mailing services) and competitive (shipping services). Market dominant products constitute about 90 percent of postal revenue. They include First-Class Mail, Standard Mail, Periodicals, and [...]
Stamp prices are traditionally in whole cent increments. That means it is difficult to target a particular percentage increase. For instance, a one-cent increase on the 42-cent stamp would have been 2.4 percent; while the two-cent increase was 4.8 percent.
Postal price increases are now limited by an inflation-based “cap” for each class of [...]
Posted in Cost, Revenue, and Rates, Mailing Services, USPS OIG, price cap, stamps, whole-cent | 
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