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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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