Small mailers may benefit by using the Internet, but remember Time Warner is one of the main first-mile ISPs for the Internet, and has just spent quite a bit of money lobbying these postal mail rate changes. A little digging turns up the underlying philosophy of these changes, as expressed by the Chairman of the Postal Board of Governors: "Each party pays the cost of service it consumes, not less, and does not bear the cost of others’ consumption." Such a philosophy produces per-piece charging and has no place for producers or the common good. What if it also gets applied to the Internet? http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2007/06/none_should_be_.html -jsq