You may have seen the news that earlier today the USPS Board of Governors announced the Postal Service will seek an across-the-board price increase, effective January 26, 2014, of 5.9%. The postage increase is made up of two parts: 1.6% is based on the CPI rate cap, with the remaining 4.3% based on an exigent increase.
What made headlines was the proposed price increase of a First-Class Mail single-piece letter from 46 cents to 49 cents. What is unknown at the moment, and what is a larger....