The Very Survival of Nonprofits Is Being Threatened

But the idea of phasing out nonprofit postal rates is wrong. First, it would place an undue financial burden on the nonprofit sector — which employs 13 million people and helps tens of millions of Americans. Second, if nonprofits no longer can afford to raise money cost-effectively (we all love digital, but mail still accounts for 78 percent of revenue to nonprofits), they no longer will be able to provide the services society relies on. Food banks will not be able to feed as many people. Hospitals will be forced to turn patients away.