Author: Steve Kearney
-
New 2018 Postal Prices Routinely in Effect
January 30, 2018 Is This the End of Routine Rate Changes? A week ago, the latest annual price change by the Postal Service went into effect, smoothly and with little notice. What use to be a big deal, attracting extensive notice by the media, large mailers, and the general public, now is routine. For that…
-
PRC Process in Place for Classification Changes that Amount to Rate Changes
January 30, 2018 But Will the CPI Cap Mean Anything? You might remember that the Alliance objected, along with many others, when the USPS first proposed to included new Full Service Intelligent Barcode requirements to qualify for automation rates in 2014. The PRC agreed with the objectors that it was a stealth rate increase. It…
-
Union Not Shy About Criticizing Customers
January 30, 2018 But Don’t They Depend on Us? Many in the “mailing industry” are very reluctant to say anything negative about the U.S. Postal Service or its unions. We all realize that mailers and the USPS are inextricably co-dependent. Neither could exist without the other. And while there are a multitude of mailers, there…
-
Jim Cochrane Retires; Jakki Krage Strako Acting CCMO
January 30, 2018 Recently, the well-liked and well-known USPS Chief Customer and Marketing Officer Jim Cochrane announced his retirement. Many mailers knew this would be coming but are concerned with the loss of someone who listened to customers and tried to bring marketing innovation to the USPS. Here is an excerpt from a statement by…
-
Alliance Notes
January 30, 2018 Bloomberg Law: Postal Service Offers Early Retirement to Mail Handlers Chronicle of Philanthropy: Postal Rates Would Increase for Nonprofits Under Proposal Quad/Graphics Blog: Raising Prices Is NOT Managing Costs com: Trump signs bill to provide fentanyl screening equipment at borders, ports, postal facilities The Hill (Opinion): The Postal Service: A service Americans…
-
Raising Prices Is NOT Managing Costs–Quad/Graphics Blog
Raising Prices Is NOT Managing Costs Written by Phil Thompson on January 25th, 2018 in All, Leading Change I am sharing a commentary from Steve Kearney, Executive Director of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, discussing his disappointment about the proposal the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) submitted for comment last month. Please read it keeping in mind that we would not…
-
Postal Rates Would Increase for Nonprofits Under Proposal–Chronicle of Philanthropy
ARTICLE JANUARY 12, 2018 PREMIUM Postal Rates Would Increase for Nonprofits Under Proposal By Timothy Sandoval Charities could pay substantially more to send appeals and other types of mail if recommendations made by the Postal Regulatory Commission for a new rate system are adopted. Nonprofits and other big mailers have already attacked the plan, released in December,…
-
Postal Service Offers Early Retirement to Mail Handlers–Bloomberg Law
January 11, 2018 Postal Service Offers Early Retirement to Mail Handlers • Target is long-term, highly paid workers • Nonprofits may benefit by USPS controlling labor costs EPA Offers Buyouts to 182 Workers in Chicago, Union SaysTillerson Said to Seek 9% Cut to State Department WorkforceBureau of Land Management Plans to Cut 1,000 Jobs in FY 2018…
-
Rates increase January 21
January 10, 2018 The Postal Service is set to raise most rates an average of 1.9 percent on Sunday, January 21. As the following tables indicate, Nonprofit Marketing Mail varies a lot around the average, with origin mail doing much better than drop-shipped. This is mainly because USPS is reducing work-share discounts that are calculated…
-
Change it back to the Postal Rate Commission
January 10, 2018 In 2006, Congress changed the Postal Rate Commission to the Postal Regulatory Commission, in what was hailed as a much-needed broadening of authority for the regulator. The PRC proposal issued on December 1, however, seems to say that it has power over only one thing—rates. And it betrayed an inherent bias to…