Author: Steve Kearney

Politicians are continuing to make their opposition to further postal plant closings clear. They are unlikely, however, to pass legislation preventing January’s start of the next round of closings.

Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP), which provides vital support to wounded veterans of this generation, is joining the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers (ANM), the nation’s only organization that exclusively represents the mailing rights and needs of nonprofits. As a nonprofit that serves a widespread community through ongoing outreach, WWP relies on…

When the Postal Service was down to about as many days of cash as you can count on one hand, it had a pretty compelling narrative to convince everyone including Congress that major new legislation was needed. In its latest 10-Q financial report, USPS has changed from quoting the exact number of days to “the…

Part of the reason the Governors were able to make the announcement they did on October 1 maintaining current prices through the next few months is that their financial results and liquidity are doing quite well. The latest Monthly Treasury Statement dated August 31, 2014 shows the Postal Service Fund with $5.1 billion in liquid…

Much uncertainty about USPS pricing in 2015 and beyond remains because of the pending appeals court decision on the exigent rate surcharge of 4.3 percentage points that customers are currently paying. With the oral arguments on September 9 that we reported in our newsletter the next day, the timing and substance of the court decision…

Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP), which provides vital support to wounded veterans of this generation, is joining the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers (ANM), the nation’s only organization that exclusively represents the mailing rights and needs of nonprofits. As a nonprofit that serves a widespread community through ongoing outreach, WWP relies on…

When the Postal Service was down to about as many days of cash as you can count on one hand, it had a pretty compelling narrative to convince everyone including Congress that major new legislation was needed. In its latest 10-Q financial report, USPS has changed from quoting the exact number of days to “the…

Part of the reason the Governors were able to make the announcement they did on October 1 maintaining current prices through the next few months is that their financial results and liquidity are doing quite well. The latest Monthly Treasury Statement dated August 31, 2014 shows the Postal Service Fund with $5.1 billion in liquid…

Much uncertainty about USPS pricing in 2015 and beyond remains because of the pending appeals court decision on the exigent rate surcharge of 4.3 percentage points that customers are currently paying. With the oral arguments on September 9 that we reported in our newsletter the next day, the timing and substance of the court decision…