Industry Issues -- Can Costs Be Passed On?
Working on the assumption that reform remains in a perpetual policy purgatory, the rate increase that takes effect next month only offsets the cost of the civil service escrow payment. And it has been four years since the last increase.
The USPS opposes postal reform in its current state, according to Cooper, and is trying to duck this legislation. One way of doing this: the USPS states it doesn't anticipate increasing rates above the Consumer Price Index for the foreseeable future. The reform saber rattlers have preached that future rate increases should not stray from the rate of inflation. Is this a promise the USPS can keep or is it mere lip service? Cooper, for one, has his doubts and believes printers would end up absorbing most of the blow for future increases.
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