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Unusual Bunch of Foes to Postal Rate Increase Unites as Affordable Mail Alliance

July 29, 2010
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By the time the U.S. Postal Service announced plans to raise rates earlier this month, an unusual alliance of customers was in place to oppose it.
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The Affordable Mail Alliance, an unprecedented coalition of Postal customers, is today calling on the Postal Regulatory Commission to reject the United States Postal Service's new proposal to increase postal rates by ten times the rate permissible by law. The new coalition includes charities, large and small businesses, American household names and the customers who use the Post Office every day - customers that will suffer if USPS successfully raises rates again.
 
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