third-class mail

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First-class postage will go from 25 cents to 30 cents, while rates for second- and third-class mail -- the mainstay of catalog distributors and magazine publishers -- will soar as much as 33%.

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Asked what he thought of third-class mail, he replied: "It doesn't send me most of the time."

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To pay for the postal raises, the President asked Congress to increase first-class mail rates from 6� to 10� and to boost second-class and bulk third-class mail and parcel-post rates by 5% to 15%.

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Day's argument is that neither second-nor third-class mail has ever paid its own way.

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During the past year, 63.7 billion pieces of third-class mail found their way into mailboxes across the nation.

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