Creating educational tools and information that can be used to inform the paper-based communications industry
This comprehensive new study released by the EMA Foundation, entitled EMA’s Foundation 2026 U.S. Mailing Industry Jobs and Revenue Study, reveals that the U.S. Mailing Industry remains a massive pillar of the American economy, supporting over 7.4 million jobs and generating nearly $2 trillion in sales revenue.
In December 2025, the United States Postal Service (USPS) petitioned for expanded rate authority to improve its financial position. EMAF and PostCom commissioned Elevated Insights Group (EIG) to conduct an independent study on whether this approach will restore the USPS’s financial stability. The study concluded that USPS’s financial challenges are cost driven and determined that there is a credible path to long-term financial stability, but it requires a multi-year cost containment and productivity plan, not expanded rate authority.
Postal Transformation
Throughout the world there is growing pressure to transform the traditional postal model as competition has increased the economic pressure on the traditional posts. Along with recent depressed economic trends, competition has had a negative impact on revenue; and at the same time, increased cost pressures in the labor-intensive and traditionally inefficient posts has squeezed margins. Postal transformation is, therefore, one of the most important issues facing our industry. This section contains studies, articles, surveys, linkages, and presentations relative to this issue.
Supporting the paper-based communications industry by designing and implementing a key research and education agenda for companies in the envelope industry.
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