Draconian Periodical Rate Increase Affects Freethought Today, Small Publishers

April 20, 2007

Readers of Freethought Today are asked to join the nationwide protest being organized by publishers of small periodicals over the pending and punitive rate increase for mailing small-press periodicals. In the case of Freethought Today, which is sent 3rd class nonprofit (bulk rate), the minimum increase will go up nearly 62%! (Rates go up from there, depending on weight.) As The Nation points out, mega-publishers are getting "special favors," while the inequitable increase will "unduly burden smaller and independent magazines with much higher rates." Ultimately, these costs must be shared by subscribers and drain the coffers of nonprofits.

Click here to read "Stamp Out the Rate Hikes"

To contact the Postal Rate Commission: http://action.freepress.net/campaign/postal

Read more: "Post Office to the First Amendment: Drop Dead" by Robert W. McChesney, Commondreams.org

Spread the word: http://action.freepress.net/freepress/postal_swag.html