Category: Alerts
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Alliance Alert – We File Reply Comments in Rate Review
August 7, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: Today, we filed reply comments in the current phase of the Postal Regulatory Commission’s rate review. This phase covers only two proposals by the PRC: (1) to limit USPS rate increases to once a year, and (2) to incentivize greater pricing efficiency by forcing the Postal…
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Alliance Alert – We File Important Comments About USPS Rates
July 28, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: Today, your Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers filed regulatory comments in support of a return to no more than annual postage rate increases and no more reductions of work-share discounts below the cost avoided by the Postal Service. We also urgently ask the Postal Regulatory Commission to…
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Alliance Alert – PMG Steiner Sends Video and Letter to Employees: He Expects to Make the Current Structure Work
July 17, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: New Postmaster General David Steiner sent a letter and a video address to all USPS employees. In them, he expresses confidence in the agency’s ability to succeed under the current structure as an independent establishment of the executive branch. Mr. Steiner rejects calls for the privatization or supplemental…
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Alliance Alert – We Fight for Lowest Combined Cost for Mailers
July 17, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers joined several other excellent associations to urge the Postal Regulatory Commission and the United States Postal Service to price the upcoming zoned USPS Marketing Mail to achieve the lowest combined cost between the private and public sectors. This will benefit the…
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Alliance Alert – USPS Governors Appoint David Steiner PMG Effective July 15, 2025
July 14, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: Late on Friday, July 11, the United States Postal Service filed an official notice with its regulator, the Postal Regulatory Commission. Because the USPS submitted the notice so late in the day, the PRC accepted and posted it today. To wit, the five USPS Governors voted on…
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Alliance Alert – USPS Proposal to Remove Bound Printed Matter Denied by PRC
June 25, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: It’s a win for mailers. This afternoon, the Postal Regulatory Commission issued an order denying the United States Postal Service’s request to remove Bound Printed Matter (BPM) from the product list. The PRC concluded: The Commission finds that the Postal Service’s rationale for…
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Alliance Alert – PRC to Phase Proposed Rate Rules
June 9, 2025 Alliance Members: The Postal Regulatory Commission just announced it will use phasing of proposed rules for rates. The first phase will consider limiting USPS to once-a-year increases and restricting USPS from reducing workshare discounts any further from the USPS avoided costs. Comments are due in 30 days from the…
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Alliance Alert – Time for the Regulator to Regulate
June 2, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: We at the Alliance and many other customers of the United States Postal Service have been saying for some time that the Postal Regulatory Commission erred when it assumed that the USPS sometimes would make judgment calls to use less than the full rate authority granted…
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Alliance Alert – PRC Approved USPS Rate Hikes for July 13, 2025
May 30, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: The Postal Regulatory Commission today approved the submission by the United States Postal Service to raise Market Dominant mail rates on July 13, 2025: https://prc.arkcase.com/portal/filings/136512 This was expected because the combination of the 2006 postal law and the regulations promulgated by the PRC led the…
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Alliance Alert – USPS April 2025 and YTD Financials
May 22, 2025 Dear Alliance Members: With the release today of its financial results through April, the U.S. Postal Service continues its poor performance. Here’s a link to the April 2025 USPS Preliminary Financials: https://prc.arkcase.com/portal/filings/136398 With an $850 million loss last month, the Postal Service’s April 2025 year-to-date (YTD) net loss was $4.0 billion…