Author: Steve Kearney
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State Sales Taxes Showing up on Nonprofit Mail
May 22, 2019 Some nonprofits are reporting that direct mail entered in certain states by their service providers is now incurring state sales tax charges. Mail service providers collecting state sales taxes from organizations without a physical presence is a result of the June 2018 Supreme Court case South Dakota v. Wayfair, in which the…
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Alliance Notes
May 22, 2019 May 8, 2019 – FEDweek – Concerns Raised on Compelling Retirees to Enroll in Medicare May 9, 2019 – Dealbreaker – Stamps.com Stock In A Freefall As Investors Take Note That Company Is Empirically Obsolete May 10, 2019 – Reason – After Losing Nearly $4 Billion Last Year, Postal Service on Track…
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Another Shoe to Drop
May 8, 2019 As if mailers don’t have enough to worry about, another shoe to drop was revealed at the April 30 hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform: The Financial Condition of the U.S. Postal Service. Blistering questioning of Postmaster General Megan Brennan by Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) disclosed that the Postal…
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Be Careful What You Wish For
May 8, 2019 A Postmaster General, a union leader, and a regulator all walk into a bar. What do they have in common? Megan Brennan, Frederic Rolando, and Robert Taub all have said many times that a key to fixing the financial problems and long-term future of USPS is increasing rates faster than the CPI…
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Cato Witness Made a Good Point
May 8, 2019 The witness from the Cato Institute, Chris Edwards, was an outlier at the House hearing on April 30. He was the only witness not steeped in postal policy issues. And he made a very unpopular assertion: “To Save the USPS, We Must Privatize It,” later published as an article in The National…
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PMG: New Combinations of Physical and Digital are a “growth opportunity for our industry.”
May 8, 2019 The opening National Postal Forum keynote by Postmaster General Megan Brennan emphasized combining digital with physical to increase the value of mail and improve results. It has become clear that digital applications will not completely replace hard copy and that the two can be successfully integrated. Brennan described “the many new ways…
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Alliance Notes
May 8, 2019 April 25, 2019 – National Association of Letter Carriers – NALC files two national level grievances April 25, 2019 – Content Marketing Institute – Get Rid of These 25 Phrases and Words From Your Content April 25, 2019 – Folio: – Has Magazine Media Finally Figured Out Its Path Forward? April 26,…
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Beware of Using GAAP/SEC Reporting to Evaluate USPS
April 24, 2019 Recently, the Postal Regulatory Commission released its “Financial Analysis” report on the U.S. Postal Service’s results for fiscal year 2018. The press release is here, and the full report here. Inappropriate Reporting The PRC report is based on USPS financial results and 10-K reports. The Postal Service is required to report its…
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Alliance Board Elects Southern Poverty Law Center
April 24, 2016 We are happy to announce that the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers at our meeting last week elected a new Board member—the Southern Poverty Law Center. It’s a coincidence that our Board meeting was in Memphis at ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Memphis also is home of the…
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Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers Origin and Board
April 24, 2019 The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers is the only mailer association totally focused on nonprofits, and the only nonprofit association completely dedicated to mail. We are run by a Board comprised totally of nonprofits, for the benefit of nonprofits. We had our genesis in 1978, when the Postal Service proposed presort discounts for…