According to A Different Stripe, Congress will be holding hearings on the recent postal rate hikes on October 30th, which were supposedly *written by* Time Warner and benefit megacorps while putting the screws to smaller magazines (like, say, F&SF).

But there’s something you can do about it. A Different Stripe also quotes a letter by the publisher of The New York Review of Books:

Free Press, working with a wide variety of small publishers, is hoping to collect well over 100,000 signatures by the end of this week in order to get the attention of the committee members prior to the hearing.

We hope you will join in this effort. These new postal rates threaten the existence of the small independent magazines and journals that are so important to a free press and a vibrant democracy.