roundtable: Re: universal service and non profit amendments.... (fwd)

roundtable: Re: universal service and non profit amendments.... (fwd)

Re: universal service and non profit amendments.... (fwd)

Samuel A. Simon (ssimon@idi.net)
Tue, 29 Mar 1994 14:00:42 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 14:00:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "Samuel A. Simon" <ssimon@idi.net>
Subject: Re: universal service and non profit amendments.... (fwd)
To: roundtable@cni.org
Message-Id: <Pine.3.85.9403291442.B23730-0100000@idi.net>


Apropos of postal discounts

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 07:22:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Putnam Barber <pbarber@isumataq.eskimo.com>
To: usnonprofit-l@rain.org
Subject: Re: universal service and non profit amendments....


>   And also, "we" have gotten rid of the nonprofit postal discount.  It 
> was voted out this past autumn and the phase-out will be complete by 
> 1997.  

This is not the way I read the recent amendments.  For bulk mailings, the 
ratio of the discount will be reduced somewhat, over time, but the 
concept (as far as I know) remains.  For periodicals, those that carry 
advertising "unrelated" to the publishing organization will enjoy less 
of an advantage (so small in some cases as to make the effort to use 
nonprofit rates unrewarding).

The postal service does not use the same standards as the IRS in judging 
eligibility for bulk rate discounts.  The resulting confusion is a good 
test-case for the dangers in the current effort to increase reporting of 
lobbying expenses by nonprofits through applying an entirely new set of 
standards (different, again, from theIRS') in that area as well.  Ugh!

Putnam Barber (pbarber@eskimo.com)
Seattle

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