Author: Steve Kearney
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USPS: no general mailing price increase in 2016
November 18, 2015 Yesterday, senior United States Postal Service (USPS) leadership for the first time publicly committed to have no general price increase for letter and flat mail in 2016. (The USPS previously announced an average 9.5 percent price increase for competitive package shipping services beginning in January 2016.) The mailing announcement came at…
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Top Ten Ways to Ensure Successful Postal Pricing — Grayhair Software
Link to page Reprinted with permission from the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers Recently, a group of USPS® customers got together and agreed on a “top ten” list of pricing suggestions for the Postal Service™. The list was given to the Chief Marketing and Sales Officer Jim Cochrane. We really believe that following these suggestions is…
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Alliance notes
November 4, 2015 Click the link to read the story Carper invites comments on his new postal bill by mail or email. Fred Thompson passed away Nov 1 at age 73. As chairman of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, he helped pass S.2686 in 2000, locking in the rate relationship between nonprofit and commercial mail.…
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Proposed postal bill has big price tag for customers
November 4, 2015 We reported on August 31 that Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had been working diligently with stakeholders representing customers, the mailing industry, employees, the Postal Service, the Postal Regulatory Commission, the Office of the Inspector General, the Government Accountability Office, and other…
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USPS Priority Mail prices to jump
NEWS USPS Priority Mail prices to jump almost 10 percent in January 2016 October 19, 2015 12:22 PM The United States Postal Service announced Oct. 16 that it plans to boost prices for its Priority Mail services by 9.8 percent in mid-January 2016. The Postal Regulatory Commission must approve the proposed increases before they can…
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Suggestions on retention through pricing
October 15, 2015 Recently, a group of USPS customers got together and agreed on a “top ten” list of pricing suggestions for the Postal Service. The list was given to the Chief Marketing and Sales Officer Jim Cochrane. We really believe that following these suggestions is in the Postal Service’s best interest as they will…
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Retention matters
October 15, 2015 There is no doubt that the U.S. Postal Service has a lot going on, but we want to emphasize that retaining its existing customers should not be lost or diminished in the business of everything else. In fact, we believe that customer retention is one of the most cost-effective and strategically important…
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Campaign to make exigent forever
October 15, 2015 Over the past five years, USPS management has made multiple attempts—at the regulator, at the federal appeals court, and in Congress—to price well above the rate of inflation because it lost volume during the 2007-2009 recession. U.S. Postal Service leaders need to know that this is more than an academic exercise. It…
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Alliance notes – click the link to read the story
October 15, 2015 2015 USPS Christmas shipping deadlines. Ballots and utility payments late in the mail. Postal Service lost dozens of college ACT exams. Inspector General looking into simplifying pricing for letters and flats. USPS governors are not the only Obama nominees frozen in Senate. Canada Post study shows how direct mail works well.…
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USPS provides essential services to nonprofits
October 1, 2015 Sometimes being the U.S. Postal Service must feel like being an offensive lineman on a football team. The only times you get noticed or mentioned are when you commit a holding penalty, jump offside, or cause your quarterback to be sacked when you miss a block. For the U.S. Postal Service…