GCA and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)

Partnering in Support of Common Sense Postal Solutions

The GCA works with the U.S.P.S. to protect the citizen mailer and advocates for 6-day mail delivery, affordable rates and a financially- sound postal service.

• GCA Urges Exemptions for Greeting Cards in Oregon EPR Law Implementation
• View the GCA Public Affairs Committee Reports here
• U.S. House approves $50 billion relief bill for Postal Service
• Keep Us Posted Flyer
• NDP Report on Rates Stamped Letters and Greeting Card Volume Factors
• GCA Memo on Bifurcated Delivery Systems for C21

If you’ve wondered why the rates of stamps are universal throughout the United States, read about the history of postage legislation here.

Read an opinion piece from “The Hill” in favor of keeping the pricing system that limits postage increases for the USPS’s captive mailers to the rate of inflation.

The US Postal service recently reported that the number of greeting cards sent by the mail had increased three years in a row. This uptick comes during a time when mail volumes overall are on the decline, and says a lot about the power of the “mail moment” that greeting cards embody.