Associated Mail & Parcel Centers (AMPC) members pay dues to support the organization’s efforts to support their businesses. The money pays for a staff to develop benefits, programs, discounts, research, education, and advocacy for the members. Joining AMPC is easy. To help us support your industry and business, go to www.ampc.org and sign up. AMPC currently [...]
Associated Mail & Parcel Centers (AMPC) members pay dues to support the organization’s efforts to support their businesses. The money pays for a staff to develop benefits, programs, discounts, research, education, and advocacy for the members. Joining AMPC is easy. To help us support your industry and business, go to www.ampc.org and sign up. We knew [...]
The Senate Bill The likelihood that the Congress will address the financial difficulties facing the U.S. Postal Service increased significantly as four key Senators who are leaders on postal issues joined behind a single piece of legislation. And, this group includes both Democrats (Lieberman and Carper) and Republicans (Collins and Brown). Titled “The 21st Century [...]
Tucked away in the President’s jobs message is the Administration’s plan to address the financial situation of Postal Service. In the following detailed talking points: Provide Postal Service financial relief and undertake reform. The Administration recognizes the enormous value of the Postal Service (USPS) to the Nation’s commerce and communications, as well as the urgent [...]
The Postal Service says the next price adjustment for all products will be January 22, 2012. Although the infamous “exigency case” is still pending at the PRC after being returned by a Federal court for more consideration, the word from the Postal Service is that no matter how the PRC decides it, we understand the [...]
Now is the time to act to protect your business and create awareness of the industry’s abilities to partner with the USPS. The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has issued its non-binding advisory opinion, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) has issued its cost reduction estimate and now it goes to Congress to decide whether Saturday delivery [...]
At the National Postal Forum, AMPC made a short presentation to the USPS Executive Leadership Team (Postmaster General, Deputy Postmaster General and the six Executive VPs) stating that we support five-day delivery and we believe the USPS will need this and other cost savings to survive, but the Commercial Mail Receiving Agents (CMRA) will have [...]
The USPS says it has 229 Post Offices and 137 Stations and branches whose operations are suspended, although it isn’t 100% positive- the USPS response says: “Despite significant effort, this list may still contain errors.” Read the List Here
To see the AMPC comments to the PRC reflecting its objection to the sale of gift cards at the Post Office, Click Here.
AMPC belongs to the Parcel Shippers Association, a trade organization whose primary mission is to foster competition in the parcel delivery market. At the February 15, 2011 annual meeting the guest speaker was Patrick Donahoe, the Postmaster General of the United States. A summary of his comments follows. Associated Mail & Parcel Centers (AMPC) members [...]
