For Hill Staffers

This section offers postal information for postal staffers on Capitol Hill. You can get information on other postal issues and background on the USPS or the mailing industry and the jobs it creates in your congressional district or state by contacting Mailers Council Executive Director Bob McLean by email (bmclean@mailers.org), or by phone (703-418-0390).

Postal Reform Act: The Status of Studies It Requires

The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 mandated numerous studies to be done by the Postal Service, Postal Regulatory Commissin, and other federal agencies.

• Click here for a document summarizing the more significant studies and their status.

Copies of Completed Studies

• GAO Study on Recycling (final version)
• Treasury Study
• Treasury Study Transmittal Letter
• FTC Study

Current Issues

• Direct mail has an environmental impact, but what is myth and what is reality? Knowing the facts helps consumers, businesses and organizations formulate more informed opinions about the value of the communications in their mailbox.      Click here to read more about Advertising Mail and the Environment.
• Mailers Council Testifies on Service Standards before Postal Oversight Committee

• Mailers Council Asks Congress to Let the Postal Service Manage Its Operations to Ensure Affordable Postage

• Mailers Council Research Paper on the Need for a Standardized Rate Implementation Period

• Mailers Council submits testimony, updated productivity study to President's Commission
• Postal Service Retirement Funding: A Potential $71 Billion Overpayment
• Why Some Mailers Pay Less for Postage, and the Work They Do to Receive Reduced Postage Rates

Postal Fact Sheets

1. USPS Background
2. Any Postage Increase Is Never 'Just' a Penny to American Business
3. Taxes Do NOT Pay for Postage, and Haven't Since 1982
4. How the US Postal Service Sets Postage Rates
5. Why Congress Owes the Postal Service Almost $1 Billion

Congressional Testimony

• Testimony on August 7, 2007, before the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security

• Testimony on July 26, 2007, before the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia

Links

• United States Postal Service
• Postal Rate Commission

About the Mailers Council

• Background
• News Releases
• Board of Directors
• Member Organizations
• Membership

©1999-2006 Mailers Council http://www.mailers.org