Congress Approves Nonprofit Postal Relief Bill.

Both the Senate and the House of Representatives approved legislation designed to protect preferred postal Postal can refer to:

Mail, the postal service
The Postal Service, a band
the U.S. slang phrase "going postal", meaning a killing spree
Going Postal, a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett
Postal

rates for nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive.

Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. mailers, which was drafted by the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, Washington Washington, town, England
Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , D.C., the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. , and others.

The measure provides the nonprofit community with an annual savings of more than $1 billion and will ensure the current preferred postal rate set for nonprofit fund-raisers and publishers. The bill also secures the rate relationship between nonprofit and commercial rate mail, protecting nonprofits from current and future "rate shock."

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Date:	Nov 1, 2000
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