Tom Carper

The Printing Industries of America (PIA), Alexandria, Va., is urging swift Congressional action on postal reform in response to the United States Postal Services’s (USPS) May 3 announcement of a plan to significantly increase postal rates in 2007. In a letter to Congressional leaders, PIA stressed that the nation is operating under severely outdated postal laws, and legislative overhaul is needed to keep the mailing industry, which accounts for 9 percent of the United States’ GDP, viable in the future. “The new proposed rate hike is another pocket-book reminder for businesses and individual consumers that the USPS is a 21st century entity operating under laws

The Printing Industries of America (PIA), Alexandria, Va., is urging swift Congressional action on postal reform in response to the United States Postal Services’s (USPS) May 3 announcement of a plan to significantly increase postal rates in 2007. In a letter to Congressional leaders, PIA stressed that the nation is operating under severely outdated postal laws, and legislative overhaul is needed to keep the mailing industry, which accounts for 9 percent of United States’ GDP, viable in the future. “The new proposed rate hike is another pocket-book reminder for business and individual consumers that the USPS is a 21st century entity operating under laws that