Wage Barometer

When a disagreement arises between employers and employees over wage rates, why not make it an established rule to settle the differences, based on the movement of the first-class postage rate. That is, by whatever percentage the first-class postage rate has gone up (or down) during the previous 12 months, that would be the percentage by which the wages would move up or down accordingly.

After all, the postage rate is a sort of government barometer, and if the U.S. Postal Service needs more money to operate or can do with less, the same is probably true for the rest of us.

WALTER D. MARINO

Pasadena