The early news stories on last week’s rate case seemed to focus on what the mainstream press saw as the most novel feature- the ‘forever’ stamp. A lot of the comments on postalnews.com did the same thing, with not especially enlightening results.

Postcom.org links to a couple of articles that do shed some light on the economics of offering a stamp that’s always good for the one ounce letter rate.

The economics of forever stamps

Economist’s View on The Forever Stamp

A hedge against postal increases

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