Author: Steve Kearney
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Alliance Report – July 31, 2025
July 31, 2025 Issue 25/05 The leading voice for nonprofits on postal issues for over 45 years. Copyright 2025: Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers—All rights reserved. The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers is a 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization established by nonprofits for nonprofits. David Steiner takes office as the Postmaster General …
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Alliance Alert – We File Important Comments About USPS Rates
July 28, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: Today, your Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers filed regulatory comments in support of a return to no more than annual postage rate increases and no more reductions of work-share discounts below the cost avoided by the Postal Service. We also urgently ask the Postal Regulatory Commission to…
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Alliance Alert – PMG Steiner Sends Video and Letter to Employees: He Expects to Make the Current Structure Work
July 17, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: New Postmaster General David Steiner sent a letter and a video address to all USPS employees. In them, he expresses confidence in the agency’s ability to succeed under the current structure as an independent establishment of the executive branch. Mr. Steiner rejects calls for the privatization or supplemental…
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Alliance Alert – We Fight for Lowest Combined Cost for Mailers
July 17, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers joined several other excellent associations to urge the Postal Regulatory Commission and the United States Postal Service to price the upcoming zoned USPS Marketing Mail to achieve the lowest combined cost between the private and public sectors. This will benefit the…
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Press – USPS hikes parcel rates and stamps by 7% – FREIGHTWAVES
NewsParcel FreightPostalMag USPS hikes parcel rates and stamps by 7% Corporate mailers say short implementation deadline to cause misdirected mail, pricing disputes Eric Kulisch ·Tuesday, July 15, 2025 The price of a Priority Mail package went up 6.3% this week. (Photo: USPS) Key Takeaways: The price of sending packages, letters and bulk mail through the…
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Alliance Alert – USPS Governors Appoint David Steiner PMG Effective July 15, 2025
July 14, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: Late on Friday, July 11, the United States Postal Service filed an official notice with its regulator, the Postal Regulatory Commission. Because the USPS submitted the notice so late in the day, the PRC accepted and posted it today. To wit, the five USPS Governors voted on…
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Alliance Alert – USPS Proposal to Remove Bound Printed Matter Denied by PRC
June 25, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: It’s a win for mailers. This afternoon, the Postal Regulatory Commission issued an order denying the United States Postal Service’s request to remove Bound Printed Matter (BPM) from the product list. The PRC concluded: The Commission finds that the Postal Service’s rationale for…
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Alliance Report – June 17, 2025
June 17, 2025 Issue 25/04 The leading voice for nonprofits on postal issues for over 45 years. Copyright 2025: Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers—All rights reserved. The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers is a 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization established by nonprofits for nonprofits. Mail service providers request a delay in July rate…
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Alliance Alert – PRC to Phase Proposed Rate Rules
June 9, 2025 Alliance Members: The Postal Regulatory Commission just announced it will use phasing of proposed rules for rates. The first phase will consider limiting USPS to once-a-year increases and restricting USPS from reducing workshare discounts any further from the USPS avoided costs. Comments are due in 30 days from the…
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Alliance Alert – Time for the Regulator to Regulate
June 2, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: We at the Alliance and many other customers of the United States Postal Service have been saying for some time that the Postal Regulatory Commission erred when it assumed that the USPS sometimes would make judgment calls to use less than the full rate authority granted…