What distinguishes “taxpayer financed junkmail” from a necessary and powerful tool used to communicate with constituents? It’s a 200-year old question. First adopted in 1775 by the Continental ...

Since he entered Congress after the 1994 elections, Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) has taken on, with little success, a Congressional perk that taxpayer watchdog groups love to hate: the frank. “The whole ...

House lawmakers spent millions of dollars on nonpolitical, constituent communications — on the taxpayers’ dime — in the weeks before a “blackout” deadline before November’s elections, according to a ...

An updated mail franking system was announced today in a partnership between the Bermuda Post Office and a local business. Susan Moore-Williams, the acting Postmaster General, said that the BPO in ...

Most of the franked mail is devoted to personal correspondence, and if 2009 franking expenses were high, he attributes them to the high level of interest in health care legislation. “We had a ...

OTTAWA - The controversy over New Democrat MPs’ allegedly improper use of their free parliamentary mailing privileges to blanket 26 ridings with almost 2 million partisan missives has put the ...