Print and Visual Communication Association in Australia (PVCA)

Print and Visual Communication Association in Australia (PVCA)

About Print and Visual Communication Association in Australia (PVCA)

The Print & Visual Communication Association represents businesses in the Print, Packaging, and
Visual Communications sector. It is a Registered Organisation regulated under the Regulated
Organisations Act and is the industrial association and peak body of industry.

Many of the businesses in the print sector rely on commercial and bulk mail as a core of their
operations and of their value offering. Some of these printers specialise in mail, and are known as
“Mail Houses”.

PVCA submits to the ACCC that the largest customer of Australia Post, the private sector Mail
Industry (aka “mail houses”), has been excluded from any meaningful consultation with the
monopoly service provider since approximately 2015 (when the last BPR increase was endorsed by
the ACCC), despite unabated volume decline.

Is it sound competitive policy that a monopoly such as Australia Post be permitted to arbitrarily use
price as a lever for their own short-term sustainability, at the cost of private sector entrepreneurs
and employers in their supply chain?
The businesses represented by the PVCA operate in rural centres as well as Australian capital cities,
and range from SMEs to listed and international companies. Collectively they are the largest
manufacturing employer in Australia, and fundamental to the promotion and delivery of commercial
transactions across our economy.

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