{"id":2636,"date":"2011-08-13T09:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2011-08-13T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:36:41","slug":"dma-says-mailers-cannot-continue-to-fund-usps-network-and-employee-compliment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/08\/13\/dma-says-mailers-cannot-continue-to-fund-usps-network-and-employee-compliment\/","title":{"rendered":"DMA Says Mailers Cannot Continue To Fund USPS Network and Employee Compliment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1-PEN-NEWS.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2637\" title=\"1-PEN-NEWS\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1-PEN-NEWS-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is a Press Release from the Direct Marketing Association<br \/>\nAugust 12, 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>DMA Applauds Postal Service&#8217;s New Cost-Cutting Proposals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-dma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Direct Marketing Association<\/a> (DMA) applauds Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe for proposing new cost-cutting ideas for the US Postal Service (USPS) for Congress and the postal community to examine. To return to financial stability, the Postal Service has stated that it is seeking legislative changes to allow for network and workforce adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service faces imminent insolvency due to declining mail volume. Insolvency of the USPS will harm the $1 trillion &#8220;mail&#8221; segment of our nation&#8217;s economy and the millions of jobs it supports. Mailers can no longer fund the excess capacity in the USPS network and its corresponding employee complement through postage. USPS must right-size its network to match the new reality of lower mail volume.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery effort to bring the postal service back from the brink of insolvency must be examined,\u201d said Jerry Cerasale, DMA\u2019s senior vice president of government affairs. \u201cWe applaud the Postmaster General for expanding that dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a Press Release from the Direct Marketing Association August 12, 2011 DMA Applauds Postal Service&#8217;s New Cost-Cutting Proposals The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) applauds Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe for proposing new cost-cutting ideas for the US Postal Service (USPS) for Congress and the postal community to examine. To return to financial stability, [&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-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","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=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}