The Nation : Some Postal Rates to Rise

Postal rates for charities, newspapers, schools and libraries will increase Sunday for the second time this year under a new rate schedule approved by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service. The first-class rate was not changed. The rate increases, approved by an 8-0 vote, range from averages of 2% to 20% for particular types of nonprofit and newspaper mail. They are designed to make up for the $72-million difference between what Congress proposed and what it actually appropriated. It also takes into account $32 million in cuts, effective March 1, required by the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law.