Groups: Measure to Eliminate Nonprofit Mail Discounts Could Cripple Fundraising

FOX News:

Reduced mailing rates for nonprofit foundations are now being scrutinized as the United States Postal Service continues to look for ways to cut spending as they face severe financial troubles.

New legislation proposed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) would gradually lower the discount on postage rates nonprofits have been receiving since 1951, when Congress first authorized the reduced rates.

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Comments

[LadyLibertyAtHerKnees]

08:24 PM on 09/10/2011

The average American receives 41 pounds of junk mail a year.Nearly half of the junk mail received annually (44 percent) ends up in a landfill. In addition, nearly $320 million in local tax money is used to dispose of junk mail, and more than 100 million trees are used to create pulpwood for paper products
We FINALLY have this industry BY THE THROAT. TIME TO JAM THROUGH A JUNK MAIL BLOCK PEOPLE! .If they want their jobs,STOP DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT WITH JUNK MAIL.
AND u cannot opt out,it doesn't work in the real world...

[BoFo]

09:27 PM on 09/11/2011

I now receive about one piece of junk mail a week because, every time I get something I don't want, I either:

call the company that sent it (their phone number is usually somewhere in the mail) and very firmly indicate that I want my name immediatel­y removed from their mailing list. (In some cases I have even mentioned the possibilit­y of legal action if my request is ignored.)

or

if a postage-pa­id, return envelope is provided, I use that to request removal from their mailing list. If I have to do that more than once, I also stuff the envelope with other junk mail so that they have to pay the additional return postage.

I do not register products I purchase -- registrati­on has nothing to do with the warranty, even though companies would like you to believe otherwise. I do not provide my address to any companies unless they need it to send something that I requested, and in that type of situation I request that my address not be used for any other purpose nor shared with any other entity.

In extreme situations­, I refuse delivery by crossing out my address, writing "REFUSED, PLEASE RETURN TO SENDER" on the envelope, and returning it to the Post Office.

http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­2011/03/11­/how-to-st­op-junk-ma­il_n_83408­8.html

http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­chuck-tell­er/people-­always-hav­e-the-ri_b­_917187.ht­ml

[BoFo]

09:37 PM on 09/11/2011

Like oops. I accidentally faved your comment. Ha ha. That will be the day. Oh well.

Corrected links from my previous reply:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/11/how-to-stop-junk-mail_n_834088.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chuck-teller/people-always-have-the-ri_b_917187.html

[bumper870]

12:09 AM on 08/22/2011

Has anyone at the top, really understand the postal system? I think they need new management.
If you cut your sales outlets the sales drop.
Ford is the only one of the car makers the did not close dealerships and they are number one and took no Government bail out money.
If it cost the nonprofits more to mail, they will find other ways,(internet,etc.) The postal service will lose more in the long run.
If the lay off that many there will early retirement a cost with no return. The federal will have to pay unemployment benefits, Food stamps, and health care. Another cost with no return.
If you don't find ways to grow a service it will die. Once cuts start there will be more cuts where will they stop.
As USPS Service drops their business will go else where then their lost ratio will get bigger as to their income.
Again Fire the planners , CEO's . If they were worth their salt this would not be happening.

[Koeiseun]

10:30 PM on 08/19/2011

They should....take a look at the typical annual salary of the heads of these "non-profit" agencies.....