Author: Steve Kearney
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Postal Hikes For Nonprofits
Postal Hikes For Nonprofits Could Become Permanent By Mark Hrywna – The Nonprofit Times – February 7, 2014 The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate approved an amended version of the Postal Reform Act of 2013 (S. 1486) that could make recent temporary exigent rate increases permanent, among other provisions that…
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Alliance Goes to Court
Nonprofits To Go To Court In Postal Rate Fight By Patrick Sullivan – The Nonprofit Times – January 24, 2014 Nonprofit mailers reeling from a 6 percent price increase set to take effect on Sunday won’t go down without a fight. The Direct Marketing Association and the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers have joined with other…
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Alliance Alert: The Commission’s 2017 Regulatory Review
The 2006 legislation requires the Commission to issue a report in 2017 on whether the system of rate regulation adopted under the law should be modified or replaced. The regulatory review is likely to be highly controversial. ANM and other mailers believe that the scope of the Commission’s authority is limited to filling the gaps…
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Alliance Alert: The Exigent Rate Case
Legislation passed by Congress in 2006 normally limits rate increases on captive mail products to the rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (“CPI”). This restriction, commonly known as the CPI cap, is the primary safeguard for captive mailers from abuse of the Postal Service’s pricing power. The law has an exception-informally…
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Alliance Alert: The CPI-Based Rate Increase
The 2006 legislation allows the Postal Service to increase rates on captive mail products as needed to recover inflation as measured by the CPI. The Postal Service filed a request for such a rate increase in September 2013. While most rate adjustments of this kind are largely unopposed, this one was controversial.
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Alliance Alert: Alliance Files White Paper with PRC
Today the Alliance of Nonprofit mailers joined seven other associations in filing a white paper with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). The paper deals with the 2017 regulatory review that the 2006 postal legislation directs the PRC to perform. LIMITATIONS ON THE COMMISSION’S AUTHORITY UNDER SECTION 3622(D)(3) PREPARED FOR THE POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 39 U.S.C.…
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Kearney Appointed
Washington area appointments for Nov. 11, 2013 The Washington Post Associations/nonprofits Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers of the District appointed Stephen M. Kearney executive director.
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USPS Exec Set to Head NonProfit Mailers Group
PostalReporter.com Posted on October 30, 2013 by postal According to the NonProfit Times The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers (APM) will have a new executive director starting next year. Stephen M. Kearney today was announced as the next executive director, effective January. He will succeed Tony Conway, who will retire at the end of the year.…
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Kearney leaving USPS to head Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers
PostalNews.com October 30, 2013 postal 3 Comments Postcom.org reports that Stephen M. Kearney, currently the USPS Manager for Customer Retention, is leaving the agency to become the executive director of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, replacing Tony Conway, who is retiring in December. Kearney was the head of the USPS stamp program for two years…
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Nonprofit Mailers New Leader
Nonprofit Mailers To Get New Leader By The NonProfit Times – October 29, 2013 The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers (APM) will have a new executive director starting next year. Stephen M. Kearney today was announced as the next executive director, effective January. He will succeed Tony Conway, who will retire at the end of the…