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US Postal Service isn't lobbying for a bailout

I am writing in response to Miami Herald columnist Glenn Garvin's recent piece reprinted in the Daily News on June 11 ("Let's ship those Postal Service money requests back to sender.") Mr. Garvin is not the first reporter to claim that the U.S. Postal Service is seeking a taxpayer bailout. This is simply not true. The USPS is not in need of a taxpayer bailout and is in no way asking for one.

What the USPS needs is two resolve two issues: A burdensome requirement to prefund future retiree health benefits, and decades of overpayment into that fund.

First, the USPS is required to grossly prefund its future retiree health benefit obligations. These payments, while legally mandated, are unfair. No other organization in the nation, public, private, or Fortune 500, is required by law to prefund for future retiree health benefits. This obligation puts the Postal Service at a disadvantage compared to its competitors, who are not required by law to prefund. The Postal Service is also not looking to skirt any obligations; current retiree health benefits are already 99 percent funded, and future retiree health benefits are over 40 percent prefunded for the next 80 years, unheard of numbers in the private sector.

Mr. Garvin's point that the taxpayers would have to pick up this tab is simply false, as the retiree health obligations are more than well funded. Second, the Postal Service would gain tremendously by the return of its overpayment into the federal government's Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) fund over the last several decades. This overpayment was estimated to be between $50-75 billion according to two separate federal studies.

If this overpayment were to be returned to USPS, there would be no need for the prefunding obligations.

This money is not taxpayer money, or a confused way of allocating pensions to its employees, as Mr. Garvin suggests. This was money the Postal Service paid, that is now being held in the general CSRS fund.

Remember, the Postal Service does not receive taxpayer funding; all expenses including the overpayment to the retirement system is paid by those who purchase postage. It is ratepayer money, not taxpayer money.

Essentially, fixing these two issues would restore Postal Service finances. USPS is not looking to be sneaky, either; officials are lobbying Congress, in conjunction with the unions such as the National Association of Letter Carrirers, to put the USPS on solid financial footing.

USPS Requirements : Postcard-Magnets Blog

Yes, the US Post Office can deliver our magnet mailer through their system without a problem.   The magnet stays securely attached to the postcard based on our spot glue process.

The USPS processes our custom printed postcard magnets  as machinable, non-automated mail.  Among other things, this means if you’d like to have your magnet mailers sent via first class, the postage rate would be based on the 2 oz. letter rate (not the the postcard rate).

The USPS offers discounted rates for properly prepared bulk mail. Based on these current rates, here are our current postage prices, if you’d like us to do the mailing (subject to change without notice):

If we will be mailing your items, please complete and fax to us a Bulk Mail Form and USPS NCOA Processing Acknowledgement Form — both forms are in the Templates file found on the webpage for each item on our magnetbyMail website . You can choose to use our indicia on the mailing piece (and pay us postage cost), or use your indicia, if it is the type that can be used at any US Post Office (not all are). If using our Indicia, prepare your art layout leaving the appropriate space for us to add the correct Indicia box and text. Note our Mailing List details (also on our website) when preparing your mailing list for us.

Of course, if you want us to ship all the postcard mailers to you, so you can distribute, we can do that, too.  In this case there would be shipping charge for UPS delivery.

Everything you ever wanted to know about mailing postcard magnets is on our website .

And you can always call us.  We’d love to hear from you!

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