1.   Postal rates are going up.

2.   An unspecified amount of revenue will be raised by simultaneously raising postal rates and transferring less money to the postal service.

3.   An independent Postal Rate Commission recommends postal rates, which can be adopted or modified by the Board of Governors. . .

4.   And they visited Capitol Hill to seek favorable legislation on issues such as postal rates and whether free-lance writers are independent contractors for tax purposes.

5.   But the postal rates for this service were higher than those of UPS, Ms. LaComb said.

6.   Catalog companies are sending more than ever this year in anticipation of increased postal rates by January.

7.   Congress and the Senate have until November to approve the new postal rate.

8.   Congress began withdrawing taxpayer funding, ordering the Postal Service to become a break-even operation in which postal rates cleared by the Postal Rate Commission ostensibly covered expenses.

9.   Direct mail by envelope is braced for another hit this summer, when postal rates are expected to rise.

10.   Government officials said Wednesday that the subsidy would now go directly to the magazines and that all magazine publishers would pay the same postal rates.