Monopoly Mail: Privatizing the United States Postal Service

by Douglas Adie

First class postage rates have risen from six cents in 1971 to 25 cents in 1988. This rapid increase might be justifiable if service had improved commen-surately, but in fact postal service has steadily deteriorated. The Postal Service concedes that it takes ten percent longer to deliver a first class letter than it did in the 1960s, and one recent postmaster general admits that delivery may have been more reliable in the 1920s. In this volume,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887387470
• ISBN13: 9780887387470
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.