More big mailer discounts as postal service goes broke

Postal commission OKs ‘junk mail’ discount plan

"...“NAA believes this decision is contrary to law, and will challenge it immediately and vigorously,” said NAA Chairman James Moroney, the publisher of The Dallas Morning News. The commission dismissed the newspapers’ damage estimate, saying in its order that “newspapers’ claims of harm..."    

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The bulk mail industry says hands off our profits

Don't touch my junk: The bulk mail industry says hands off our profits

"...The big guns in the room are going to be the bulk mail companies, and they have already made their position clear. They have been fighting against the rate increase since it was initially proposed last year, and they have already come out in favor of the proposed cuts to labor and the post offices. On August 12, within hours of hearing the USPS plan, the Direct Marketing Association— the leading association of businesses using direct marketing (junk mail) — “applauded” the proposed cuts. ..."    

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Junk mail deluge feared as postal union and Royal Mail reach deal to end strikes

"...The agreement also outlined a 6.9% pay rise over three years for Royal Mail workers, a cut in working hours and further assurances that there will not be compulsory..."    

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Subsidizing Junk Mail in the Great Recession

"...Nearly half of all junk mail isn't even opened. Richard Conlin, Seattle City Council President: "From the city's perspective, it becomes garbage and we have to pay for disposing of it. And even if it's recycled, recycling still isn't as good as not having it in the waste stream at all."

The public's dislike for junk mail has hovered between 80% and 90% since the early 1990s..."    

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Junk Mail's Endless Summer

"...If the goal of all this junk mail is profit, the USPS needs to think of something else: Even before the economy went south, Postmaster General John Potter predicted that the USPS would lose a billion dollars in 2008. As it turned out, they lost $2.8 billion. But it probably doesn't take much more than a semester of Business 101 to see that if you're not within a billion dollars of profitability, you probably need to take a hard look at your business model...."    

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To Postal Workers, No Mail Is ‘Junk’

With revenues falling, the post office owes its future to stuff we throw out

"...89 percent of consumers say in polls that they'd prefer not to receive direct-marketing mail; 44 percent of it is never opened. That's why 19 state legislatures have debated Do Not Mail lists,..."    

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What is GreenDimes?

"...With GreenDimes, you can stop up to 90% of your junk mail - guaranteed. We work with you and the largest group of marketers and catalogs — over 4,500 and growing — to make sure you get only the mail you want...."    

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Junk Mail Being Used to Track New Orleans Recovery

"...The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center has linked the number of homes actively receiving Valassis Communications' RedPlum direct mail promos to a Google map incorporating Street View...."    

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Junk Mail Debate

Efforts to Block Junk Mail Slowed "... the Direct Marketing Association has made $141,877 in contributions to federal candidates, including $6,610 to Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.), who chairs the subcommittee that oversees the Postal Service and does not face reelection until 2012. ..."
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