Postal Rates
» Postal Rates, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2002
If respondent would shift to post cards or cheaper classes of mail should first-class postage rise 6 cents for a letter and 3 cents for a post card by year's end.
6a2. By what percent would you shift?
| Response | Small employers shift to cheaper class if postage rates rises | All small, employing businesses/Small employers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | < 10 percent | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 10 - 24 percent | 7 | 1 | |
| 3 | 25 - 49 percent | 19 | 3 | |
| 4 | 50 percent or more | 73 | 12 | |
| 5 | Not shift classes | 84 | ||
| 6 | DK/Refuse | 1 | 0 | |
| Total (%) | 100 | 100 | ||
| N | 62 | 397 | ||
Notes: Seventy-three (73) percent of small employers who would shift to post cards or cheaper classes of mail if postage rates rise to 6 cents for a letter and 3 cents for a post card by year's end would shift 50 percent or more of its first-class volume (Q#6a2). Twelve (12) percent of small employers would shift to postcards or cheaper classes of mail should first-class postage rise by 6 cents for a letter and 3 cents for a postcard by year's end (Q#6a2).
