Show i Postmaster Po r in Weekly Weer y Dispatch D patch H Much i IS the Postal Deficit Th The Post rost Office will lose Joe an r tI Y this fiscal fiscals fiscals' e ei s' s T The e lo loss s for tor t fiscal cal 1959 Is prete pre pre- tei te at TO T These Thee ee sums IIams will be added to the tl national debt The Interest interest- which la It paid out of your taxes- taxes amounts to lo well ell over oer million a year Some day the the debt deM must be paid Thill means meau We e are asking our children and and- our childrens children's children to pay the cost coot ot of carrying carry ing lag our own letters through the thema ma malls mails II II What Whit Causes Cause the Postal Deficit The rates are too low I I Although the poet post office now I loses money on all classes of ot mail mall except parcel post the principal causes for the deficit are s second oDd class mall mail ma magazines and newspapers news papers and third class claps mall malt mostly ertl ad advertising ad circulars The post pott loses about ri Ii on 11 A R yea yea- on handling ma maga maga- 7 nc and and newspapers nl The loss on advertising circa circa- circulars lars mars Is le about million a year jear ear When Were Postage Rates Last Increased he It'll la c t InT n ase on 01 first class clasi mal iral wag wal In 1932 a 1932 a quarter of ot a century century ago Second class rates I nave navo been inc ea eased ed only 3 per percent percent percent cent since Ince 1982 1932 1932 1 I The post poM off ce Is 11 rhal charging 1832 1939 I p P p-ces p for If It services and paying 1957 costs costa for the things It buys I i l o tal costs cost ha hae e Increased more thai than 10 per cent since 1132 1532 i i How Can Postage Rates Be Increased Only by Congress The House of Representatives Representatives' has passed au a apo po postage taJI rate bI bill l The Senate trust mutt art on It hn When Ii It it convenes n I eI fn r n January If it It l It is to becott e l law w. w I I The President and anil t the Post rot master General hue have asked Con Con- to increase the late intes six tines In n n the last lut five fUe years yearn The i United States Statu Senate Senale has haa not been given git en the opportunity to vot vote on th's important matter daring t the these At e five the years We believe e most S Senators e n a at t o 0 r I s I would welcome the thA opportunity of voting on this vital I Issue e I IWho II I Who Opposes Postage Rate Rat Increases I IThe The principal opponents opponent of any I f postage rate tate Increases are re certain Da publishers and some or of orthe the large users ot of third claM clasa mall a 11 These h e classes cluse of ot mall mail represent sent rent nt the principal causes of the postal deficit I Approximately 90 60 per cent ot of the Nations Nation's newspaper newspaper- publishers publish era ers have hue editorially a reasonable ble increase in to their rates I I I The public public according according to hundreds hundreds hun hung of independent public opinion op opo polls polls is is at l least 65 5 p r pr r cent In favor of paying An an additional penny on OD their letters If it It means meana reducing the huge postal deficit |