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		<title>Is the Price Right?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA) ushered in a new regulatory structure for the U.S. Postal Service. One key element was a price cap on market dominant products. (Most of the Postal Service&#8217;s products are market domina...]]></description>
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		<title>Stamp Vending Machines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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For decades, the Postal Service offered vending machine service to supplement its retail operations. Vending machines meet the needs of customers who want to purchase stamps without waiting in line. 
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For decades, the Postal Service offered vending machine service to supplement its retail operations. Vending machines meet the needs of customers who want to purchase stamps without waiting in line. 
While the lack of stamp vending machines has resulted in customer frustration and a surprising number of newspaper articles, the problems are particularly acute in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>How Can the Postal Service Reduce the Costs Associated with Postage Stamps?</title>
		<link>http://blog.uspsoig.gov/?p=2756</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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How much does it cost to develop, print, ship, inventory, secure, sell, and cancel a stamp used to mail a letter?  What about the stamps that are never sold?  The Postal Service destroys billions of stamps each year because they are obsolete.  In F...]]></description>
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How much does it cost to develop, print, ship, inventory, secure, sell, and cancel a stamp used to mail a letter?  What about the stamps that are never sold?  The Postal Service destroys billions of stamps each year because they are obsolete.  In FY 2008, the Postal Service printed 37 billion stamps, which cost $78 [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>At the Post Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Last Monday was predicted to be the busiest day of the year for Post Offices™ across the country.  Have you visited a Post Office recently?  If so, we would like to hear your story.
Why were you there?  What worked well?  What didn’t work well?
Ha...]]></description>
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Last Monday was predicted to be the busiest day of the year for Post Offices™ across the country.  Have you visited a Post Office recently?  If so, we would like to hear your story.
Why were you there?  What worked well?  What didn’t work well?
Has your local Post Office adopted any best [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A Penny for Your Thoughts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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 p...]]></description>
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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 [...]]]></content:encoded>
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