Magazine Industry: USPS financial situation –Myth vs. Fact

4/30/2018 The magazine industry supports and needs a healthy Postal Service. Yet, the Postal Regulatory Commission is proposing rate increases for the Market Dominant segment of the mail stream as high as 40 percent.  Such a move will have the chilling effect of driving away business and creating an existential threat to the Postal Service. […]

USPS: Magazine Group CEO is Wrong, Customers are protected from price gouging

USPS Sets the Record Straight Does legislation pending in the U.S. Senate designed to reform current postal laws give USPS “unchecked, unprecedented power to charge Americans whatever it wants for its services?” The answer is no, of course not. But this assertion was made by the Association of Magazine Media’s CEO, Mary Berner, in an […]

Association of Magazine Media Reacts to Rejection of Baldwin Amendment to Postal Reform Bill

MPA – The Association of Magazine Media Reacts to Rejection of Baldwin Amendment to Postal Reform Bill New York, NY – February 6, 2014 – Mary G. Berner, President and CEO, MPA – The Association of Magazine Media – today issued the following statement after the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs […]

Mailers Ask PRC to reject USPS proposal to Raise Postage Rates

FLAWS AND INACCURACIES IN USPS’S EXIGENCY FILING UNDERMINE ITS REQUEST FOR ABOVE INFLATION RATE POSTAGE INCREASE Ignoring Digital Diversion and Impact of Recovery Undercuts USPS Request for Increase above Inflation Rate Washington, D.C., November 26, 2013 – Today, a broad coalition of postal customers and suppliers asked the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to reject a […]

Association of Magazine Media Reacts to USPS Exigency Filing

The Association of Magazine Media issued the following press release: “A Terrible Substitute for Badly Needed Legislative Reform of the USPS” New York, NY (September 25, 2013) – Mary G. Berner, President and CEO, MPA – The Association of Magazine Media – issued the following statement after the Postal Board of Governors today announced their […]