Magazines and Periodicals
A bulk rate increase would also be the death knell for some subscription magazines like Reader's Digest and AARP--two of the largest circulation magazines in the country. Like other publications, they've been hit year over year with postal increases on second-class mail -- costs that eat into the very slim margins of most magazine publishers. As rates rise, more publications are apt to deliver their subscriptions on electronic tablets and other devices, saying goodbye to USPS altogether.
