AMA and PIA Rally Against Postal Hike
The AMA argues that the Postal Service has not met that test, pointing out:
- Economic downturns are a part of life. The ups and downs of economic cycles, like changes in the weather, are not "extraordinary" or "exceptional" circumstances.
- The trend toward Internet communications and away from mail has been taking place over the past fifteen years, giving the USPS years to prepare for the decline in volume. It hasn't.
- While the recession, which began in December 2007, caused sharp declines in volume and revenue, competitors of USPS, such as FedEx and UPS, had comparable or even greater declines. Those and other well-run firms, made the necessary and painful cuts in operating costs and capacity to increase productivity. The USPS did not and its productivity has fallen.
- Companies:
- Printing Industries of America, Inc.
- People:
- Senator Susan Collins