Did you know that the Postal Service grants rate discounts in the staggering amount of $14 to $18 billion per year?  That’s right, $14 to $18 billion every year.  Recently, in response to a question by a Congressman the postmaster general gave this unbelievable number.  It is unacceptable that he did not have an exact number with a range of four billion dollars, but rate discounts have become such an integral part of subsidizing commercial businesses that he could only provide an estimate.  You have heard repeated announcements about the five billion dollar annual future health care payment but not one word about this $14 billion subsidy.

The law requires that rates must be uniform but large mailers have been successful in reducing postage under the phony excuse of performing mailing preparation activities.  There is no sortation or transportation functions that mailers can perform at USPS’ costs, yet rates are reduced in this staggering amount, reducing postage for large mailers only.   Average citizens mailing a house payment or a note to a loved one does not enjoy rate discounts and must pay the full rate, notwithstanding the mail preparation performed.  But large mailers have corrupted the rate process to the extent that they are now creating their own rates totally divorced from the costs of operating a national system.

via Burrus Journal- A Ponzi Scheme