Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you, sir. (Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Charlie Strauzer with CJS Securities.
Charles Strauzer - CJS Securities
Hi, good morning.
Unidentified Company Speaker
Good morning, Charlie.
Charles Strauzer - CJS Securities
Hey Tom, quick, couple of quick questions for you, I mean, you and Miles went through a flavor of the top-line trends. If you could maybe explain a little bit when you look at April hearing totally that there are some signs of life again in terms of maybe that Q1 was at bottom in terms of the rate of decline in the industry. And also with the upcoming proposal by the U.S. Postal Service to propose a discount to standard mailers and maybe extend on that potentially when you talk to customers, are they intrigued by that?
Thomas Quinlan III
Sure, Charlie, thank you. First, let me back up probably a little bit on enactive (ph), the first quarter was not a surprise for us from the standpoint of where the numbers ended up coming up from a top-line standpoint. We knew that this was going to be a period where it was going to be tough to go ahead and stomach but our industry needs to go through this.
It is still a highly fragmented industry. In order to get this industry where it should be, this time period is going to have to take place and again because of where we're at, because of what we've built here, because of the product offering we have, we feel very confident that we're going to be able to come ... go into this as we're going into it to come out of it, even in a better position than what we were.
So I would tell you that our customers, the meetings that we're having with them, they are positive. And one of the reasons for me to be particularly upbeat today as we sit in front of you is that we're having good meetings with customers, meetings that again I would tell that we've been trying for years since we got here to and since we built the platform to say, look, this is what we have built, this is what we can do for you.
Now it comes into play, now we can go ahead and show you, demonstrate here the savings we can do for you, here is the efficiencies that we can bring forward to you and whether you are a magazine book publisher, you do other printing, you do other communication neat, we can help you there and we can bring our scale to bear.
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