Postal Rates
» Postal Rates, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2002
6a. If first-class postage were to rise 6 cents a letter, to 40 cents, and 3 cents a post card to 24 cents, by the end of the year would you:?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maintain your volume of first-class mail | 59 | ||
| 2 | Reduce your volume of first-class mail | 20 | ||
| 3 | Shift from letters to post cards | 2 | ||
| 4 | Shift to cheaper forms of mail, such as third class | 14 | ||
| 5 | DK/Refuse | 5 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 397 | |||
Notes: Fifty-nine (59) percent of small employers would maintain first-class mail volume and not shift to cheaper forms if postage rates rose 6 cents for letters and 3 cents for post cards by year's end (Q#6a).
