Show Up Mail l Rates Rates' In the last thirteen years years years' postal rates have been raised three times a one hundred percent percent percent per per- cent increase j NOW THEY TIlEY are soon to be raised again first class charges es by a whopping 33 percent percent- from six to eight cents Other rates will also go up There is no question that raises were due in the last thirteen years Yet inexpensive postal service has long been one of the great services of the American government and at the recent rate of increase postal service will soon become become become be be- come relatively expensive for forthe forthe forthe the p public CONTINUOUS POSTAL rate hikes not only feed the inflation inflation inflation in in- psychology but they and regular raises for the millions of postal employees and other government workers directly contribute to inflation tion In recent years the Nixon Administration has talked much about inflation but when it c came me to a question of unpopular unpopular unpopular un un- un- un popular moves by the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House to postpone civil service service service ice pay hikes and other hikes little action was forthcoming NOT ONLY have practically all government workers and there are now millions of them rec them received pay raises inthe in inthe inthe the past recession year they have been promised annual raises in in many cases regardless regardless regardless regard regard- less of job performance This is one reason another sharp hike in postal rates irritates the general public |