Author: Steve Kearney
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USPS price cap change not the answer
April 19, 2017 Mounting evidence that altering the price cap is not the answer We believe the last thing the U.S. Postal Service needs to fix its current predicament is price increases above inflation brought on by removal of the current CPI price cap system. The price cap is the closest thing USPS has to the…
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Alliance notes
April 19, 2017 Alliance notes—click the links to read important stories Promo Marketing: USPS Rolls Out Digital Mailbox Preview Feature Nationwide Billings Gazette: ‘Mail goes by us like 2 times before it gets here’: Rural Montana waits for Postal Service reform Forbes: Understanding Basic USPS Requirements For Direct Mail Entrepreneur: How the Seasons Affect Your…
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Why FSS should be scrapped–Dead Tree Edition
Thursday, April 13, 2017 Why the Flats Sequencing System Should Be Scrapped A 2011 presentation explained how FSS would streamline the handling of flat mail. Oops! What many have long suspected has now been confirmed: The U.S. Postal Service’s Flats Sequencing System is a disastrous failure that cannot be fixed. The FSS is adding so…
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Publishers Battle USPS “Stupidity Tax”–Publishing Executive
VIEW FROM THE TREE April 11, 2017 Postal Rate Fight Continues as Publishers Battle USPS “Stupidity Tax” Source: Pixabay By D. Eadward Tree FACEBOOKFACEBOOKTWITTERTWITTERLINKEDINLINKEDINGOOGLE +GOOGLE+EMAILEMAIL4 COMMENTSCOMMENTS “Told you so. Now don’t try to slap us with a Stupidity Tax.” That, in essence, is the magazine industry’s response to the U.S. Postal Service’s latest attempt to…
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Raiding USPS Coffers Goes Back Years
April 10, 2017, Linn’s Stamp News Congress’ habit of raiding USPS coffers goes back almost 30 years. Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank came to Washington, D.C., in 1988 with a mandate to run the United States Postal Service like a business. That’s why the former California savings and loan executive was furious when he discovered…
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Nonprofits are an anchor in the mailbox
April 6, 2017 A note from a friend “I have been reading every letter submitted to the PRC by the many members of your Association commenting on the 10-year review. Each letter delivers a powerful message about the importance of our charitable organizations and the importance of stable and predictable postage rates for their mission…
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Nonprofits weigh in with PRC Commissioners
April 6, 2017 Notes from many friends in the nonprofit sector Leaders in over 30 nonprofit organizations took the unusual step (for them) to write a letter or declaration to the Commissioners of the Postal Regulatory Commission. They urged the Commissioners to retain the current system of regulating postal rates. The future of nonprofit mailers…
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Alliance notes
April 6, 2017 Alliance notes–click the links to read important stories Future Fundraising Now: Podcast – How to Create Great Fundraising Teasers USPS: Pre-MTAC Webinar: Informed Delivery Program, Tuesday, April 11, 2017 from 2:00PM-3:00PM (EDT) The Hill: Criticism of the Postal Service is unfounded and unfair com: Unbelievable new USPS service will revolutionize the way…
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Summary of Additional Rate Review Comments
Summary of Rate Review Comments (By parties other than Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, MPA—The Association of Magazine Media, and Postcom—The Association for Postal Commerce) Read the comments by clicking here. Lengthier comments American Catalog Mailers Association: Generally supportive of our position. American Bankers Association: Supports our position. American Forest & Paper Association: Supports our position.…
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Summary of Alliance Comments
Summary of Comments of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, MPA—The Association of Magazine Media, and Postcom—The Association for Postal Commerce (Comments were filed at the Postal Regulatory Commission on March 20, 2017) The Postal Service is a regulated monopoly. For this reason, the law requires the Commission to regulate the prices charged by the Postal…