Why Raise Magazine Postage? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 13, 1912

Why Raise Magazine Postage?

By Editor

The Post-office Department of our Government is on a paying basis, and it has been put on a paying basis without any increase of postage on the magazines and periodicals. For twenty-seven years there has been a deficit. In twelve months, in 1909, the loss exceeded $17,000,000; and yet Postmaster-General Hitchcock has in two years turned a big deficit into a surplus, extended carrier delivery and new rural routes, and increased the postal employees. Now why, in the face of this, is it still contended that the postage should be raised on magazines?