Author: Steve Kearney
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Alliance Report–February 28, 2023
February 28, 2023 Troubling USPS report The report filed by the U.S. Postal Service with the Postal Regulatory Commission on the mail and package agency’s results through January 2023 is very troubling. Volumes are down much more than expected and losses are more than twice what the agency projected in its official Integrated Financial Plan…
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Alliance Alert–Nonprofit Mail Service Reporting
February 16, 2023 Dear Members and Sponsors of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers: We previously have reported that the Alliance suggested that the Postal Regulatory Commission require that the USPS report on service performance for nonprofit mail separately from commercial mail, for both Marketing and Periodicals Mail. The PRC agreed with this suggestion…
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Alliance Alert–July Postage Rate Increases
February 16, 2023 Dear Members and Sponsors of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers: As we get closer to the expected and promised July postage rate increases, likely details are becoming more clear. One important variable yet to be decided is whether USPS will get its wish to add 0.936% for the density…
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USPS Opens a New Line of Credit With Treasury –Government Executive
The Postal Service could borrow up to $3 billion in any given year. NurPhoto / Contributor Getty Images Management USPS Opens a New Line of Credit With Treasury The Postal Service has grown its liquidity immensely, but is eligible to borrow up to an additional $5 billion. February 10, 2023 02:19 PM ET The U.S.…
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Louis DeJoy Laments the Existence of USPS’ Regulator–Government Executive
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is not happy that some groups are once again seeking to block USPS from using its full authority to raise rates above inflation. Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images Management Louis DeJoy Laments the Existence of USPS’ Regulator The postmaster general jokes he would be better off without the regulatory commission, which exists to…
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Alliance Report – February 2, 2023
February 2, 2023 Bad news and good news First, the bad news. At the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee meeting this week, USPS VP for pricing and costing gave the agency’s first estimate of the rate increase authority it expects to have, and most likely fully use, in July 2023. Sharon Owens forecast the general July…
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Alliance Report – January 18, 2023
Nonprofit mail volume since the peak We have updated our data on nonprofit mail volumes since Fiscal Year 2006, the year overall mail volume peaked at 213 billion. FY 2022 ended on September 30, 2022. We always point out that these data do not include all the First-Class Mail that nonprofits mail themselves and generate…
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Alliance Report – December 20, 2022
All we want for Christmas is light at the end of the USPS tunnel Dear USPS, You have been urging us to write to Santa. We thought we mailers should write to you to tell you what we want, no need, from you, our exclusive provider of mail delivery. Right now you have us in…
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Alliance Report – November 14, 2022
Postal updates: The more things change…the more they stay the same Losses Despite the grand promises made by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and his Delivering for America (DFA) plan, longtime observers of the Postal Service see common themes repeating themselves. USPS just reported results for the Fiscal Year 2022 ending September 30. The agency lost…
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New 40¢ stamp good for both mass mailers and collectors – Linn’s Stamp News
US Stamps New 40¢ stamp good for both mass mailers and collectors Nov 2, 2022, 10 AM This United States 40¢ Red Fox stamp is scheduled to be issued in 2023. Philatelic Foreword by Jay Bigalke Among the many new 2023 United States stamps revealed in late October was a 40¢ Red Fox stamp that…