Tag: USPS

High-Tech Group: US Postal Service Should Stick To Mail

Posted by | May 15, 2001 | |

A high-tech and telecom industry group today took a swipe at the U.S. Postal Service for its attempts to compete with “fledgling e-commerce” companies while enjoying privileged governmental status. “We do not see any reason for a government agency to be competing against private firms in the vibrant, competitive world of e-commerce, and wonder how much money will they have to lose on these undertakings before they decide to stick to their core mission of delivering the mail,” said Ed Black, the Computer & Communications Industry Association’s president and CEO

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Report blasts (US) Postal Service

Posted by | May 15, 2001 | |

A coalition of mass mailers on Monday issued a blistering report on U.S. Postal Service productivity, criticizing the agency for driving up stamp prices with shoddy management practices. The Mailers Council, a group of businesses and organizations that accounts for 70% of the nation’s mail volume, based the report on data collected from the first quarter of 2001

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Postal woes need action

Posted by | May 14, 2001 | |

The U.S. Postal Service is in trouble. The advertising and publishing industries that depend on it are publicly fed up, and rates are set to increase for the second time this year. With the future looking like more of the same, the clamor is building-and rightly so-for Congress to take action. If shouting alone were enough to get attention in Washington, the din last week easily could be heard up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. The Postal Service Board of Governors complained about the independent Postal Rate Commission, which it said made the coming July 1 rate hikes necessary by ignoring Postal Service revenue needs. The Magazine Publishers of America and Direct Marketing Association lambasted the Postal Service for not being able to control its costs.

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