“They've been watching Congress do nothing for the past four years and they think they've got to do something to keep things running. Absent any legislative reform, their only recourse is to go with exigency,” said Hamilton Davison, president and executive director of the American Catalog Mailers Association.
Davison and other representatives of volume mailers held a conference with the Board before its meeting, during which they laid out the damaging effects an exigent increase would have on their businesses, as well as the United States Postal Service (USPS). “The idea is so repugnant that the industry has to stop and focus on nothing but knocking exigency back,” Davison declared.
The governors issued a statement following yesterday's meeting saying that have postponed final decisions on pricing until their next scheduled meeting on September 24 to 25. In the interim, they said they would continue to listen to the input of stakeholders in the mailing industry.
