Take your pick.
Click any of these banners to send a letter to the Postal Board of Governors, your congress-critter, and others. Your letter will probably read something like the following:
The Postal Board of Governors recent decision to support an unfair increase in periodical rates will have grave consequences for the free speech that our Founding Fathers struggled to foster when they established the U.S. mail system.The rate increase was devised by Time Warner -- the largest publisher in the industry. If implemented, it will have an adverse effect on smaller periodicals, while easing the postal burden on the largest magazines.
This goes against more than 200 years of postal policy, which has promoted the spread of diverse periodicals in competitive markets as a means to foster a free press and inform and engage citizens.
Congress must step in to protect smaller media from new regulations that would undo this history.
Please join the call for public hearings to determine how this case was decided in such an unusual and unorthodox fashion. Before any increases occur, we must ensure they don't imperil small and independent publications and stifle public discourse in America.
Tags: Free_Press, /free_speech, /media, /USPS
Having an unknown strand of the flu in Rio was pretty bad. Having the flu back home has been worse. Seth, this country is getting worse than depressing. Who do they think they are? They don't care. I'll write a stamp and link this to my blogs, if that's okay.
Nothing simple.