As postal rates go up, many businesses have been turning to telemarketing as a way of contacting new customers.

随着邮资上涨，许多企业已经转而将电话营销作为一种联系新顾客的方法。

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Postal rates were relatively cheap, but anecdotal accounts of lost letters are legion.

虽然邮费相对低廉，但是丢失信件的轶事简直举不胜举。

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But after offering depositors high interest rates, Ponzi never really dealt in postal coupons, which turned out to be too unwieldy for large-scale speculation.

但是在承诺存款者高额利息后，庞奇从未真的交易邮政票据，因为那个在大规模投机中太难于操纵了。

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One big area for expansion: presorting, or arranging mail by ZIP code, to get a break on postal rates.

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Although the U.S. Postal Service is ostensibly independent of the federal government, in fact the Postal Rate Commission, which in December became the Postal Regulatory Commission, appointed by the president, sets all postal rates.

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The plan would also give the Postal Service more leeway to increase postage rates.

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