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- <text id=91TT1671>
- <title>
- July 29, 1991: Business Notes:Postage
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- POSTAGE
- A Costlier Christmas?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The U.S. Postal Service will soon be offering some priceless
- stamps. Literally. In June it began producing its latest line of
- Christmas stamps in the midst of a continuing rate war with its
- overseer, the Postal Rate Commission. The Postal Service is
- dissatisfied with the current 29 cents price of a first-class
- stamp, which the Rate Commission approved in January in
- defiance of a long-standing request for a 30 cents stamp. The
- extra penny would bring in $850 million a year for the Postal
- Service, which is as hard hit by the recession as any business.
- The Postal Service has one last chance to push the price up a
- penny, but it could hardly afford to be the Christmas stamp
- Grinch. So the two seasonal stamps--one bearing a madonna, the
- other a secular winter motif--will simply read 1991 and sell
- for whatever price is in effect by then.
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- </body></article>
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