A NEW RATE CASE SEEKING A postage increase in 2007 is about to be filed with the postal Board of Governors, said Postmaster General Jack Potter during his keynote address at the National Postal Forum in Orlando, FL.
The next hike is supposed to keep the U.S. Postal Service at break-even through 2008. The USPS plans to institute annual postage rate changes at or close to the inflation rate starting in 2009, as part of its