Author: Steve Kearney
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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…
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Alliance Alert – PRC Approved USPS Rate Hikes for July 13, 2025
May 30, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: The Postal Regulatory Commission today approved the submission by the United States Postal Service to raise Market Dominant mail rates on July 13, 2025: https://prc.arkcase.com/portal/filings/136512 This was expected because the combination of the 2006 postal law and the regulations promulgated by the PRC led the…
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Alliance Alert – USPS April 2025 and YTD Financials
May 22, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: With the release today of its financial results through April, the U.S. Postal Service continues its poor performance. Here’s a link to the April 2025 USPS Preliminary Financials: https://prc.arkcase.com/portal/filings/136398 With an $850 million loss last month, the Postal Service’s April 2025 year-to-date (YTD) net loss was $4.0 billion…
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Alliance Alert – ANM Rate Case Comments
May 9, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: Here are the comments that we filed with the PRC urging the regulator to reject the July 2025 rate increase proposal and put a moratorium on rate hikes until it finishes its rate review rule-making. We added information on the new PMG and the 2nd quarter loss…
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Alliance Alert – New PMG and Another Loss
May 9, 2025 Alliance Members, The USPS Governors selected David Steiner as the 76th Postmaster General of the United States. He will start in July if he passes the ethics and security clearances underway. Chair McReynolds waited until the very end of the Board of Governors meeting to announce this news, which she…
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Alliance Alert – USPS Death Spiral Requires Immediate Actions by Regulator
Statement – Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers May 6, 2024 Contact: Stephen Kearney, Executive Director steve@nonprofitmailers.org The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers Warns of a USPS Death Spiral, Urges Immediate Actions by its Regulator USPS behavior is actively reducing its customer base and creating massive barriers to entry for new mail Regulatory action is essential now to…
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Alliance Report – May 2, 2024
May 2, 2024 Issue 24/06 The leading voice for nonprofits on postal issues for over 44 years. Copyright 2024 Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers—All rights reserved. A 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization established by nonprofits for nonprofits. DeJoy is taking the heat for trying to perform a miracle, and he wants everyone to have faith in…
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Postal Rates And Operations Face Review, Updates – The NonProfit Times
Postal Rates And Operations Face Review, Updates by Richard H. Levey on April 10th, 2024 Regulators overseeing the U.S. Postal Service are considering a series of rate and operational changes. As part of this review, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) is reviewing pricing rules the U.S. Postal Service has had in place since November 2020.…