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Bursting the Bubble

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By Eddie Mayhew

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There is a silly app for smart phones called “Bubble Wrap,” and a kid’s game for those and other devices modeled after the animated movie “Up” that lets you pop balloons to raise and lower the floating house. Both of them are fun and “Bubble Wrap” I think was created to annoy people at staff meetings. Both of them made me think of another bubble about to be burst. Various elements of the Postal Service haven’t yet come to realize how serious the situation out there is for their future, and for the future of the mailing industry that depends on them.

For a very long time the USPS management kept a game face, talking about how “when First-Class Mail volume comes back” things would get better and the financial problems will be eased.

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Eddie Mayhew

Ed Mayhew worked for the Postal Service for 37 years, becoming one of the most recognized experts on periodicals mail in the country. Ed was a part of the Rates and Classification Service Center (RCSC), ending his career as a Classification Specialist in the New Pricing and Classification Service Center in New York City. He has written rulings, instructions and articles for postal publications, appeared as an expert witness in court, a rebuttal witness for the Postal service at the Postal Rate Commission, co-authored postal handbooks and applications, and was the RCSC coordinator for six postage rate cases.

He is the 2002 winner of the Angelo R. Venizian award for contributions to the publishing industry, the first postal winner of that award in its history.

Ed has made training videos appearing on radio and TV, speaks at numerous seminars and is an 11-time top National Postal Forum speaker. He is founder and president of consultancy Eddie Mayhew’s Classification Station. Contact Ed at 973-462-5662, E-Mail at eddie@emclass.com or Twitter @eddiemclass.

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