US Alliance reaches 1,000 members

The Affordable Mail Alliance has today announced the addition of its one thousandth member group. The Alliance is a coalition of non-profits, Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, major trade associations, consumer groups, and citizens representing the vast majority of the mail sent in the United States.

Formed in response to the US Postal Service’s July 6 announcement that it would seek to raise rates, the Affordable Mail Alliance has been steadily picking up new members since its inception.

Growing from a handful of organisations, these members range from the American Forest and Paper Association to non-profit organisations like the Disabled American Veterans to small local publications like Oklahoma’s Countywide News.

“We are proud of the alliance we have built-over a thousand groups, large and small, from around the country, who have joined together on this issue,” said Tony Conway, Affordable Mail Alliance spokesperson and executive director of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers.

The one thousand groups that have now signed on to the Affordable Mail Alliance, based in all regions of the country, provide a picture of broad-based discontent with the Post Office’s proposal, said the Alliance.

“There is a reason that a thousand non-profits, local newspapers, successful companies and small businesses from across the country have joined the Affordable Mail Alliance to say enough is enough. We’re tired of being asked to foot the bill for the USPS’s failure to control costs,” said Conway.  “The Post Office’s proposed rate hike hurts mail customers and it’s just bad business.”