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)

Hanno T. Beck (hbeck@Essential.ORG)
Wed, 30 Mar 1994 08:15:50 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 08:15:50 -0500 (EST)
From: "Hanno T. Beck" <hbeck@Essential.ORG>
Subject: Re: universal service and non profit amendments.... (fwd)
To: roundtable@cni.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.85.9403291442.B23730-0100000@idi.net>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.85.9403300850.A2327-0100000@essential>

On Tue, 29 Mar 1994, Samuel A. Simon wrote:
> 
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 19:21:56 -0500
> From: Samuel A. Simon <ssimon@idi.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <roundtable@cni.org>
> Subject: Re: universal service and non profit amendments.... (fwd)
> 
> 
> Apropos of postal discounts
> 
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> Samuel A. Simon
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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


It is certainly true that there's a lot of discussion and confusion 
within the US Postal "Service" and the nonprofit community about 
_current_ postal discount changes and _current_ treatment of unrelated 
advertising in nonprofit periodicals, etc., but that is all concerned 
with the present, while special discounts still exist.  Nevertheless 
the nonprofit postal discount concept _has_ been abandoned and _is_ 
being phased out. 

Hanno Beck
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