{"id":497,"date":"2009-07-18T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=497"},"modified":"2009-07-18T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T14:21:10","slug":"list-of-companies-lobbying-the-postal-rate-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2009\/07\/18\/list-of-companies-lobbying-the-postal-rate-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Companies Lobbying the Postal Rate Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-498\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/prc-lobbied.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-498\" title=\"prc-lobbied\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/prc-lobbied-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Postal Rate Commission\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postal Rate Commission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>July 18, 2009<\/p>\n<p>We had no idea that the Postal Rate Commission (PRC) could be lobbied by any company or person &#8211; apparently they can. The following is a 2009 list of firms and\/or persons lobbying the PRC:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mailers Council<br \/>\nNational League of Postmasters<br \/>\nPitney Bowes Inc<br \/>\nPrinting Industries of America<br \/>\nCB Richard Ellis<br \/>\nEPostMarks Inc<br \/>\nGreeting Card Assn<br \/>\nHallmark Cards<br \/>\nMorgan Stanley<br \/>\nNational Postal Policy Council<br \/>\nNewspaper Assn of America<br \/>\nSiegel &amp; Gale<br \/>\nUnited Parcel Service<br \/>\nValassis Communications <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If, \u00a0in fact, this list is factual then how does the PRC use these funds? The list is provided by OpenSecrets.org which is owned by the Center for Responsive Politics a not for profit group located in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>You may find their list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/lobby\/agencysum.php?lname=Postal+Rate+Commission&amp;year=2009\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 18, 2009 We had no idea that the Postal Rate Commission (PRC) could be lobbied by any company or person &#8211; apparently they can. The following is a 2009 list of firms and\/or persons lobbying the PRC: Mailers Council National League of Postmasters Pitney Bowes Inc Printing Industries of America CB Richard Ellis EPostMarks [&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-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}