Author: Steve Kearney

  • Postal union not supporting draft bill for now

    Postal union not supporting draft bill for now June 22, 2016 The American Postal Workers Union issued the following press release on the draft legislation: The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a “discussion draft” of a postal bill on June 15. “Any comprehensive postal legislation is critically important to our members,” said…

  • Federal association opposes medicare in bill

    Federal employee and retiree association opposes the Medicare portion of draft bill June 22, 2016 The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) legislative director was quoted in an article as saying: “This version of the legislation is an improvement over the original plan but still contains a requirement that postal retirees must enroll…

  • PRC approves USPS mail promotions for 2017

    PRC approves USPS mail promotions for 2017 June 22, 2016 Promotion Registration Period Promotion Period First-Class Mail Promotions:   Earned Value Reply Mail   Personalized Color Trans-promo     November 15-December 31, 2016   May 15 – December 31, 2017     January 1 – June 30, 2017   July 1 – December 31, 2017…

  • Alliance Notes–June 22, 2016

    Alliance notes—click the links to read the stories Deseret News: Jay Evensen: Can Chaffetz fix the Postal Service? Federal News Radio: Time to ‘push the envelope’ for Postal Service reform eCOMMERCE BYTES: Postal Reform Edges Nearer – Postal Rates Addressed AMI Newswire: Postal Service reform on the way from Congress Linn’s Stamp News: House bill…

  • Alliance Alert–New Draft Postal Bill

        June 15, 2016   The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a discussion draft of a bipartisan postal reform bill.   The full bill is available here.   And a summary is available here.   Stakeholders will have until June 29 to comment to the committee staff.   More to…

  • Alliance opposes legislated rate increase

    June 1, 2016 Alliance weighs in on potential House bill The Alliance and several of its members, shown in bold, along with representatives of most of the Nation’s postage-payers, signed this letter to the House Oversight Committee as it considers possible postal reform legislation:   May 24, 2016   The Honorable Jason Chaffetz Chairman, Committee…

  • USPS consistently beating plan

    June 1, 2016 USPS beats its April profit plan by $343 million USPS reported a $187 million April operating profit after planning for a $156 million loss. Wow! That’s quite an earnings beat! If USPS beat by that amount every month it would reap an additional unexpected annual profit of $4.1 billion. It shows you…

  • Alliance notes

    Alliance notes–click the link to read the story–June 1, 2016 WAVY: First woman appointed as Postmaster of Norfolk Recode: Jeff Bezos insists Amazon isn’t trying to kill UPS Linn’s Stamp News: April financial results better than U.S. Postal Service predicted Reuters: S. consumer spending increase strongest in over six years Daily Mail: Send your stuff…

  • April financial results better than U.S. Postal Service predicted–Linn’s Stamp News

    April financial results better than U.S. Postal Service predicted  May 25, 2016 01:56 PM Despite a reduction in stamp prices April 10, the United States Postal Service turned in strong financial results for the month of April. Facebook Tweeter Google + Get Link By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent Some mailers are saying that the end…

  • Mailers Want a Quick-Fix Reform Bill, But Will USPS Go Along?–DM News

    Al Urbanski, Senior Editor May 24, 2016 Mailers Want a Quick-Fix Reform Bill, But Will USPS Go Along? Share this content: facebook twitter linkedin google Email Print Shore up finances, forget rates, and get back to business as usual, plead mailers as Rep. Chaffetz readies a bill. Sen. Tom Carper and his quest for postal reform…