Envelope Manufacturers Association
President of the Envelope Manufacturers Association, based in Alexandria, Virginia; author of several books about the postal service in America, including The History of Envelopes
PROFILE
Maynard Benjamin
Guest
FROM Maynard Benjamin
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Postal Service Threatened with Drastic Cuts in Jobs, Benefits Acknowledging that its request is "extraordinary, the US Postal Service has told Congress that " we will be insolvent next month ,” and need to break labor agreements and get out of the federal retirement system. Mail volume has dropped by 20 percent, producing a loss of $20 billion in the past four years, $8.5 billion last year alone. We hear more from Lisa Rein, who reports on the federal government for the Washington Post , and Maynard Benjamin, president of the Envelope Manufacturers Association.
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