{"id":1408,"date":"2010-09-18T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2010-09-18T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T13:35:12","slug":"just-19-days-to-stop-postal-rate-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/09\/18\/just-19-days-to-stop-postal-rate-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Just 19 Days to Stop Postal Rate Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Affordable-Mail-Alliance2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1409\" title=\"Affordable Mail Alliance\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Affordable-Mail-Alliance2-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Press Release: 9\/15\/2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crunch Time: Affordable Mail Alliance Releases First Print Ad<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Just 19 Days to Stop Postal Rate Hikes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC &#8211; The Affordable Mail Alliance &#8211; a coalition of non-profits, Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, major trade associations, consumer groups, and citizens representing the vast majority of the mail sent in the United States &#8211; today continued its high-profile campaign with a print advertisement asking the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to reject the Postal Service&#8217;s demand to increase rates by close to ten times the rate of inflation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Postal Regulatory Commission has only nineteen days left to reject this massive rate hike and in this print ad we&#8217;re asking them to do the right thing,&#8221; said Jerry Cerasale, Affordable Mail Alliance Spokesperson and Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for the Direct Marketing Association. &#8220;Our membership of is doing everything in their power to get the message across that a rate increase would be bad for business, bad for the economy, bad for jobs and bad for the Postal Service itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Affordable Mail Alliance ad &#8211; running today in Roll Call &#8211; is a call to action to the PRC to send the Postal Service&#8217;s rate increase &#8220;back to sender.&#8221; It focuses on the economic impact a rate increase of this kind would have on the economy. As stated in the ad, &#8220;The Postal service wants to raise postal rates ten times the rate of inflation. This is the wrong message to send a nation that desperately needs to stimulate economic growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over 1,000 non-profits, local newspapers, successful companies and small business from across the country have a reason for joining the Alliance,&#8221; said Cerasale. &#8220;They know this unproductive and unlawful rate increase simply will not help the Postal Service and will hurt our economy and jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release: 9\/15\/2010 Crunch Time: Affordable Mail Alliance Releases First Print Ad Just 19 Days to Stop Postal Rate Hikes Washington, DC &#8211; The Affordable Mail Alliance &#8211; a coalition of non-profits, Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, major trade associations, consumer groups, and citizens representing the vast majority of the mail sent in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}