The Mailers Council, the nation's largest coalition of mailers, will unveil a major
new study next week concerning the future of the US Postal Service.
 

When

Monday, May 14, 2001, 10 a.m.
 

Where

National Press Club, Zenger Room, 14^th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC
 

Why

The Postal Service is facing a financial crisis:

• This month, after the Postal Service predicted a $3 billion deficit for FY 2001, the General Accounting Office put the Postal Service on its “High Risk List.”
• The Postal Service will file for a 15 percent postage rate increase in July—on top of an average 10 percent increase implemented this January.
• Postal management, recently cancelled over 800 facility projects.
• The Postal Service is studying five-day mail delivery.

To prevent this situation from worsening, we believe the Postal Service must manage within its current legislative framework to improve productivity. The study unveiled on May 14 will show where productivity is both improving and declining.
 

Who

The Mailers Council is the nations largest coalition of corporations, nonprofit organizations and major mailing associations. Council members represent for-profit and nonprofit mailers that use the United States Postal Service to deliver correspondence, publications, parcels, greeting cards and payments. Collectively the Council accounts for as much as 70 percent of the nation's mail volume.

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