Category: Press

  • AARP and QuadGraphics Execs Honored

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    Execs From Quad, J.Crew Group, AARP to Be Honored with 2017 Luminaire Awards June 15, 2017 – Printing Impressions ALEXANDRIA, Va. — June 15, 2017 — Idealliance and Printing Industries Alliance have announced that Karen E. Krigsman of J.Crew Group, Inc., Traci L. Lucien of AARP, and Joe Schick, recently retired from Quad/Graphics, will be honored with 2017…

  • Mailer Groups: USPS – Spendthrift Monopolist

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    Mailer Groups: USPS – Spendthrift Monopolist June 9, 2017 – mailomg.com, The Official Mail Guide Opinion of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, MPA—The Association of Magazine Media, and Postcom—The Association for Postal Commerce In the ongoing “Ten Year Review” of postal pricing, the Postal Regulatory Commission is considering whether to retain, loosen, or eliminate the…

  • Associations Issue Opinion Piece Critical of USPS/NALC Contract

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    Associations Issue Opinion Piece Critical of USPS/NALC Contract June 9, 2017 – Leo Raymond, Mailers Hub A few days after the commentary in the preceding post was written, an email arrived in the Mailers Hub inbox, conveying an op-ed piece released by three DC-based associations: the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, MPA – the Association of Magazine…

  • Mailers’ Groups Blast NALC Deal

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    Mailers’ Groups Blast NALC Deal Dead Tree Edition June 1, 2017 Three mailers’ organizations blasted a labor deal with the National Association of Letter Carriers today as proof that the “spendthrift monopolist” U.S. Postal Service “cannot be counted on to control its costs or prices.” “Rather than bringing compensation more in line with the private…

  • Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 federal budget targets postal union benefits

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    Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 federal budget targets postal union benefits Linn’s Stamp News Washington Postal Scene — By Bill McAllister Forty-eight years after President Richard M. Nixon pleaded with postal unions to support his plan for an independent postal service, another Republican president appears to be saying those unions might have achieved too many benefits…

  • Mail Group Trio Attacks New Wage Agreement

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    June 3, 2017 – Connolly.House.gov Three large mailing organizations have attacked the Postal Service’s new wage agreement with the National Association of Letter Carriers, saying the pact shows that the USPS “cannot be trusted … to control its own costs.” In a June 1 essay, titled “USPS — Spendthrift Monopolist,” the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers,…

  • Mailers’ Groups Blast NALC Deal

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    June 2, 2017 – PostalTimes.com Three mailers’ organizations blasted a labor deal with the National Association of Letter Carriers today as proof that the “spendthrift monopolist” U.S. Postal Service “cannot be counted on to control its costs or prices.” “Rather than bringing compensation more in line with the private sector – as required by postal…

  • Hold on! Don’t set next year’s mailing budget just yet–Association TRENDS

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    2018 postage picture murky: Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers By STEPHEN M. KEARNEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALLIANCE OF NONPROFIT MAILERS | 05/11/2017 SHARE| For those nonprofit mailers working on next year’s budgets, the outlook for postage rates is unclear at best. Here are three main factors you need to take into account. 1. The regular CPI-capped annual…

  • USPS Price Cap Change Not the Answer–Veritiv Key Notes

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    Veritiv Blog KEY NOTES – VOLUME 04 NUMBER 16 Erv Drewek | April 21, 2017 USPS Price Cap Change Not the Answer – The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers believes the last thing the U.S. Postal Service needs to fix its current predicament is price increases above inflation brought on by removal of the current CPI…

  • Why FSS should be scrapped–Dead Tree Edition

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    Thursday, April 13, 2017 Why the Flats Sequencing System Should Be Scrapped A 2011 presentation explained how FSS would streamline the handling of flat mail. Oops! What many have long suspected has now been confirmed: The U.S. Postal Service’s Flats Sequencing System is a disastrous failure that cannot be fixed. The FSS is adding so…