The Direct Marketing Association ran an open letter to Congress today in a Washington newspaper to call attention to the importance of enacting significant postal reform.
The letter, which appeared in Roll Call, a newspaper covering Capitol Hill, listed revenue and employment figures for each of the 435 congressional districts, the 50 states and the District of Columbia to dramatize the economic resources at risk in each district, the DMA said.
“Members of Congress need to be cognizant of the fact that so many jobs in businesses both small and large are at stake in their home districts which depend on the maintenance of a viable, universal and affordable postal system,” Wientzen said in a statement.
The letter quoted a number of government, editorials, elected officials, businessmen and others calling for postal reform.
“To be saved, the USPS needs Congress to grant it the flexibility to compete in today’s changing marketplace, increasingly driven by electronic communications and private sector delivery,” the letter, signed by DMA CEO H. Robert Wientzen, read.
The postal service connected 280 million people, 125 million households and 10 million businesses handling about 700 million pieces of mail each day.
