June 3, 2017 – Connolly.House.gov

Three large mailing organizations have attacked the Postal Service’s new wage agreement with the National Association of Letter Carriers, saying the pact shows that the USPS “cannot be trusted … to control its own costs.”

In a June 1 essay, titled “USPS — Spendthrift Monopolist,” the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, the Association of Magazine Media, and the Association for Postal Commerce argued that a price cap is essential to force the Postal Service to control its spending.

Postal workers are paid “nearly twice what the private sector pays for similar work,” the three mailing groups say.

They cited the NALC agreement, saying it offers too much money for union members and converts lower paid city carrier assistants into career postal workers.

“We have no argument with the nation’s postal workers,” the mailers said.

But the USPS wants the Postal Regulatory Commission to eliminate its price cap.

That would lead to ruin for the Postal Service, the mailers say, arguing the price caps are needed to save them from “out of control postal costs.”

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