Letters
Letters Myth of the· Successful Woman Hurrah for Deborah Fallows ["Mothers and Other Strangers," January] who put into such accurate words feelings I have had since my children, ages six and...
...Fortune magazine (which is· owned by Time, Inc...
...There is a suit against the USPS, but I am alone in that...
...I firmly believe it was that suit that forced the Rate Commission to consider the current case...
...I do wish to comment upon the second article, "Philanthropy at the First-Class Window: How Your Stamps Help Buy Jacques Cousteau an Asparagus Fork...
...The article properly points out that the American public subsidizes nonprofit mailers-but does not recognize that this is done through Congressional appropriations from the general Treasury, and definitely not from an inflated price for "full rate" postage...
...As indicated later in the article, should Congress not appropriate the difference between the nonprofit rate and the rate the nonprofit mailer would otherwise pay, the Postal Service is to charge the nonprofit mailer the "regular" rate...
...went fortnightly from monthly in January 1978...
...You were in error on the order of the two most important non-weeklies getting red tag...
...You (and I) are involved in an administrative proce-· dure, a Mail Classification case, before the Postal Rate Commission...
...A. LEE FRITSCHLER Washington, D.C...
...But my concern is now whether I can find in my career something that is as important, as significant and brings me as much gratification as being a mother...
...As Chairman of the Postal Rate Commission, I read the article by Walter Jacob with great interest...
...In February 1978 they were granted "red tag" status by special dispensation of the New York postmaster...
...Oral arguments were heard before the Court of Appeals in Washington in December, 1979 and we look for a decision in the spring...
...There are a few factual errors in the piece that should be corrected...
...First, your magazine and the others in the current red tag case are not suing the USPS...
...At times I did find (and still do) childrearirig tedious, boring, and depressing...
...Postal Service...
...Pennington is editor of the Maine Antique Digest...
...To him it is self-evident that the Greek lobby is not needed to explain the inclusion of Plato and Aristotle, the Italian lobby, Dante, and the German lobby, Nietzsche...
...Thus mailings of authorized nonprofit organizations are being subsidized by an act of Congress through Treasury revenues and not by the rates this Commission recommends be paid by other classes of mail...
...ThePostal Service is prohibited from carrying mail of any class, including nonprofit mailings, unless it receives the full cost for such mail...
...JACOB NEUSNER Providence, Rhode Island Mr...
...Neusner is the Ungerleider Distinguished Scholar of Judaic Studies at Brown University...
...Red tag was initiated in 1924 and Forbes magazine was granted the service in 1933...
...My youngest child entered first grade this year...
...Pro Maimonides ELEANOR BERGHOLZ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Peter Engel ["Harvard's Soft Core," January] credits "the Jewish lobby" for the inclusion of a course on Moses Maimonides...
...Letters Myth of the· Successful Woman Hurrah for Deborah Fallows ["Mothers and Other Strangers," January] who put into such accurate words feelings I have had since my children, ages six and seven and one-half, were born...
...SAMUEL PENNINGTON Waldoboro, Maine Mr...
...Second Class Citizens Congratulations on your piece on red tag and the Postal Service ["Last In, First Out at the Post Office," Walter Jacob, January...
...Contrary to popular opinion Lewis Carroll is not dead: he is writing legal briefs for the U.S...
...Certainly at regular intervals I felt trapped and had the urge to flee...
...Since the subject of that article, expedited delivery of second-class mail (red tag treatment) is currently pending before this Commission, I am constrained from commenting upon it at this time...
Vol. 12 • March 1980 • No. 1
