A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, with respect to the financing of the cost of mailing certain matter free of postage or at reduced rates of postage, and for other purposes.
Educational and Cultural Postal Amendments - Authorizes a phased increase over a specified period of time in postage rates for second class publications. States that such increases shall take place in two-year steps. Provides that the rates for the first 250,000 pieces of each user of a second class publication shall not exceed 66-2/3 percent of the applicable rates.
Provides that after July 6, 1972, the revenues received from rates for second class publications shall not exceed 50 percent of the published rate.
Authorizes the Postal Service to request the Postal Rate Commission to make a recommendation for an adjustment in rates for a particular class of mail where the Congress fails to appropriate any of the amounts authorized to be so appropriated, and where under the Federal Voting Assistance Act of 1955 such amount was requested by the President in the budget.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
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