Author: Steve Kearney
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Alliance Files Reply Comments
April 4, 2018 Alliance Replies for Nonprofits On Friday, March 30, 2018, the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers filed “reply comments” with the Postal Regulatory Commission on its proposed revamp of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) price cap on postage increases. We filed 87 pages of public comments, along with some additional ones under seal. The…
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Highlights of our Reply Comments
April 4, 2018 Here are highlights of our 87 pages of public reply comments. Read the full comments at the PRC website here. The initial comments confirm that the proposed above-CPI rate increases are fundamentally arbitrary. Despite the commenters’ disparate conceptions of an ideal ratemaking system, the most striking feature of the initial comments is…
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Alliance Notes—Articles Worth Reading
April 2, 2018 Folio, March 21, 2018–Meredith to Lay Off 1,200 Employees as Part of Time Inc. Integration Sludge Feed, March 22, 2018–US Postal Service Files Patent for Backing up Data With the Blockchain Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, March 22, 2018–New Postal Reform Bill Introduced in Senate National Association of Letter Carriers,…
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New Postal Reform Bill Introduced in Senate
March 22, 2018 New Postal Reform Bill Introduced in Senate Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), joined by bipartisan co-sponsors, Senators Moran, Heitkamp, and McCaskill, introduced a bill to reform the Postal Service. The bill has many similarities to the House bill, but also some important improvements: Attempts to correct underfunding of USPS retirement liabilities. While…
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Magazine Publishers Publish a Magazine
Magazine Publishers Publish a Magazine March 20, 2018 You might think it’s a dog bites man story. But it really is man bites dog. The association representing magazines published a special magazine. Magazines are stepping up their opposition to the Postal Regulatory Commission’s proposal that would raise postage rates 40 percent in the next five…
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Major Magazine Will Cease Mailing if PRC Proposal Happens
Major Magazine Will Cease Mailing if PRC Proposal Happens March 20, 2018 ESPN The Magazine promised it will cease mailing all of its 2,000,000 magazines if the PRC program becomes reality. ESPN is a top-30 magazine, about the size of the nonprofit magazine, Guideposts. Hearing that it will leave the mail completely is not a…
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USPS Covers up its 5-year Forecast
USPS Covers up its 5-year Forecast: Justification for Removal of Price Cap March 20, 2018 There are many ironies in this ten-year anniversary review of the PRC pricing system. But one of the ultimate ironies is to be found in the monopoly government agency’s secrecy about its five-year forecast. To help justify removing the price…
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USPS Facts & Figures
USPS Facts & Figures A Decade of Facts & Figures March 20, 2018 The Postal Service has a table that shows a decade of facts and figures. It not surprisingly does not have figures about productivity or cost control. But it does make for some interesting comparisons with 2010 when the USPS issued Ensuring a…
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Alliance Notes
Alliance Notes—Articles Worth Reading March 20, 2018 The NonProfit Times, March 2, 2018–Groups Challenge Legality Of Postal Hike ISSUU, March 5, 2018–Magazine Media Response to PRC Proposal Office of Inspector General, March 5, 2018–A New Reality: Correspondence Mail in the Digital Age Linn’s, March 7, 2018–New USPS mail processing plant to set open soon in…
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Nonprofits Speak Out
March 9, 2018 In response to the Postal Regulatory Commission proposal to allow the USPS to raise postage rates as much as 7 percent a year, or 40 percent in five years, the nonprofit community has spoken out. About 130 individual nonprofits wrote letters to the PRC urging Commissioners Taub, Hammond, Langley, and Acton to…