Wednesday, April 18, 2007
NR Needs You [Jack Fowler]
The U.S. Postal Board of Governors recently decided to jack up mailing rates on periodicals, with a disproportionate share of the increase falling on smaller, independent publishers — such as National Review. Our estimated hike is a whopping 16 percent, which will cost well over $100,000. Other publishers face increases of 20 percent and up — this is sure to put some out of business.
Postal-rate hikes make strange bedfellows: NR has joined an alliance of opinion magazines, including The American Spectator, The Nation, and Mother Jones, to battle these new rates. There's a congressional hearing coming up to investigate them, and that's good news, but what is truly needed to stave off disaster is for citizens to contact the USPS governors and let them know that this proposed increase will have — to use a favorite term of our friends on the left — a "chilling effect" on political debate in print.
Please take a minute, now, to visit our special website to learn more about our joint campaign — "Stamp out the Rate Hikes: Save Small and Independent Publishers." If you would dash off an email to the USPS suits, it would be an immense help to sustaining National Review. (A gentle reminder to those who don't subscribe to National Review on Dead Tree: There would be no NRO without the print-magazine mothership.) Thanks in advance for your help. 04/18 08:53 AM
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