Author: Steve Kearney
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Great results should pause above-inflation rate increases, but they won’t
May 12, 2021 Rate-paying mailers and their private sector service providers are anticipating a filing for mail price increases of 5.5 percent to 7.5 percent above inflation this month. The recent open USPS Board of Governors meeting revealed that postal management presented a proposed set of higher rates to the strategic planning and…
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Alliance notes
May 12, 2021 April 28, 2021, Bloomberg – Postal Board Nears Democratic Majority That Might Keep DeJoy April 29, 2021, GAO – U.S. Postal Service: Volume, Performance, and Financial Changes since the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic April 30, 2021, Yahoo News – Chief postal inspector tells lawmakers that social media monitoring began after…
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Three new USPS Governors
April 29. 2021 Three new USPS Governors The Senate committee that oversees the Postal Service held a hearing and later voted to recommend that the full Senate confirm them. The new Governors likely will join the next Board of Governors meeting on Friday, May 7 at 9 am ET. You can listen to the…
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USPS moving ahead with service standards
April 29, 2021 USPS moving ahead with service standards The Postal Service is moving rapidly ahead with a change in First Class Mail service standards effective this September. About 30 percent of current First Class that travels by air to try to meet a 3-day standard will move to ground and 4- or…
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Union objects to consolidation plans
April 29, 2021 Union objects to consolidation plans Not surprisingly, the American Postal Workers Union quickly objected to the USPS announcement that it will consolidate 18 mail processing plants. The USPS management announcement said: The movement of mail processing operations at 18 facilities previously paused in 2015. Those select moves will follow…
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Alliance Notes
April 29, 2021 Alliance Notes April 15, 2021, Government Executive – USPS Should Outsource More Post Offices and Request Subsidies, IG Says April 19, 2021, Federal News Network – Postal Service seems to be getting back on track with on-time mail delivery April 20, 2021, The American Prospect – Letter Carriers’ Union and Congressional Democrats…
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Alliance, allies, and USPS file initial briefs in appeal of rate authority
April 14, 2021 As the first substantive step in a rather long, “expedited” legal process, the Alliance and its mailer allies, and the USPS, filed initial briefs with the U.S. Court of Appeals on April 13. The schedule will last well beyond the Postal Service’s first tax on mailers expected this summer or fall.…
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USPS holds a record cash hoard: over $25 billion
April 14, 2021 After drawing down $8.464 billion of its CARES Act appropriation, USPS was reported by Treasury to hold $25.77 billion in cash and securities in the Postal Service Fund on March 31, 2021. This is a record amount of cash held by USPS. They have access to another $1.5 billion in CARES money…
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Five observations about the USPS plan
April 14, 2021 https://about.usps.com/video/DeliveringForAmericaOurVision.mp4 The USPS is moving forward with the plan. PMG DeJoy has been briefing mailers associations and editorial boards about his new strategic plan. But he is clearly not open to changes or criticisms. He intends to implement the plan as is. The plan relies on a very pessimistic mail…
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Alliance notes
April 14, 2021 Alliance notes March 26, 2021, The Washington Post – Democrats introduce ‘DeJoy Act’ in opening salvo against USPS leader’s mail-slowing plan April 5, 2021, Federal News Network – DeJoy says USPS to run out of cash in late 2022 without 10-year reform plan April 7, 2021, Government Executive – USPS Has Nearly…