Author: Steve Kearney
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Reduction in First Class Delivery Times is not Saving USPS Anywhere Near What It Planned
October 24, 2018 The Office of the Inspector General of the USPS recently released a report on the savings realized from the 2015 degradation in First Class mail service times. Here is how they described the goals of the change: On January 5, 2015, the Postal Service revised its First-Class Mail (FCM) service standards, eliminating…
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USPS Contribution from Packages Increasing at $1 Billion Annual Rate
October 24, 2018 The Postal Service is growing the revenue and profitability of its competitive package business enough to make a very large, increasingly positive impact. In its filing of 2019 price changes, the Postal Service shows that a full-year implementation of the competitive product price increase, even after accounting for volume impacts, would increase…
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USPS to Offer Promotions for 2019—Worth Consideration by Nonprofits
October 24, 2018 As we have in years past, we urge all nonprofit mailers to seriously consider participating in the Postal Service price discount promotions in 2019. They present the opportunity to both realize near-term postage savings and to test new concepts that might yield positive results going forward. Five will be very familiar from…
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Alliance Notes—Articles Worth Reading
October 24, 2018 MarketWatch, October 10, 2018–Post office proposes raising ‘Forever’ stamp prices by 10% CNN Business, October 10, 2018–Postal Service seeks record price hikes to bolster falling revenues The Washington Post, October 10, 2018–Postal Service proposes 5 cent increase to first-class stamp USA Today, October 11, 2018–USPS proposes price hike of 5 cents, biggest…
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Nonprofits Decry Latest Proposed Postal-Rate Increases–The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NEWS AND ANALYSIS OCTOBER 18, 2018 PREMIUM Nonprofits Decry Latest Proposed Postal-Rate Increases By Julian Wyllie CHRONICLE PHOTO BY ARIELLA PHILLIPS Nonprofits say a proposed postal-rate hike slated for next year, most notably a 10 percent increase for first-class stamps and a 2.5 percent increase for marketing mail and periodicals, would make a significant dent…
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Fundraisers To Get Smacked With Postal Hike–The NonProfit Times
NPT News & Articles Fundraisers To Get Smacked With Postal Hike Fundraisers To Get Smacked With Postal Hike OCTOBER 11, 2018 MARK HRYWNA The price of a First Class stamp would rise 10 percent, from 50 cents to 55 cents, and other classes of mail heavily used by nonprofits would see price hikes next year…
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USPS Continues to Try to ‘Walk Back’ Federal Register Fiasco
October 10, 2018 The Postal Service’s latest attempt to save face on the recent Federal Register Notice (FRN) fiasco came at last week’s Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) meeting. The first public attempt by USPS management to walk back, or back-pedal, its colossal error in previously announcing the potential ban of all merchandise in Marketing…
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Thoughts of a USPS Customer, Nonprofit, MTAC and ANM Member
October 10, 2018 By Phil Claiborne, Circulation Director, Elks Magazine The United States Postal Service is “contemplating” ridding Marketing Mail of merchandise or goods, only paper-based printed matter would be allowed. First, let me say I dislike the name Marketing Mail, for its commercial connotation, I prefer Standard Mail. Second, what does this mean for…
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USPS Office of Inspector General Learns About Nonprofit Customers
October 3, 2018 The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General invited the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers to participate in an interactive session with many of its staff with the goal of furthering their understanding of this important customer segment. We responded by presenting on October 3 an all-star panel of nonprofit mailers who exemplified…
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Are Changes to Standard Mail on the Horizon?
Are Changes to Standard Mail on the Horizon? By Leo Raymond–Republished with permission by the author. October 9, 2018 An unfortunate yet chronic criticism of the Postal Service is that it seems to not understand its commercial customers’ businesses. What they do, why they do it, what their business objectives are – all that seems too…