On July 9th the postage on a standard first class letter rose from 63 cents to 66 cents. 3 cents, hardly worth thinking about and yet a sinister cloud hovers above this seemingly inconsequential rate hike. Do the math:
Each Letter will cost an extra 3 cents. Multiply this by 1000 and you are up to $30.00. 52 weeks in a year and it will not go a full year until another rate hike and you are up to $1,560.00. That means, with only a simple calculation not even allowing for a catastrophic event like climate change, we are looking at an additional cost of almost $2,000.00 per year for every man, woman and child in The United States.
A frightening possibility but the numbers don’t lie.
Usually one must go to their elected representatives to get this level of truth.
(Hmmm? Senator Berman from the great state of Oregon…)