Earlier this summer, I wrote that we may have to prepare for a future in which Media Mail is no longer offered by the United States Postal Service. When that happened, I actually got pushback from folks who insisted that the USPS had always made rate-hike requests in October for the following year — and that there was no reason to expect that things would be different now. My response was that I hoped I was wrong.

I did not get my wish.

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