I found the tips from Folio magazine to be helpful for publishers dealing with the postal rate hike. Highlights: Sacking the Sacks - Publishers that continue to mail in sacks instead of on pallets will face some punishing rates. Indeed, the publishers who will be the hardest hit by the new rate hikes will be those that continue to mail in sacks and enter the mail stream where their printer is. Renewed Co-Mailing - Co-mailing, where different titles are selectively bound on binders and mailed together, is a potential area of significant savings for publishers. In fact, for many publishers that have already tweaked their paper and trim size, or may not want to adjust them, this is the one area that is worth embracing. Paper - Paper manufacturers know their customers are always looking for high quality paper with lighter basis weights. One solution is to look for papers with the chemical additive titanium dioxide. DuPont makes a whole product line called DuPont Titanium Technologies. Basically, the chemical can be added to lightweight papers to give them the print show-through resistance that heavier papers naturally have SEE THE FULL ARTICLE