Category: Alerts

  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…

  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…

  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…

  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…

May 9, 2025   Dear Alliance Members:   Here are the comments that we filed with the PRC urging the regulator to reject the July 2025 rate increase proposal and put a moratorium on rate hikes until it finishes its rate review rule-making. We added information on the new PMG and the 2nd quarter loss…

May 9, 2025   Alliance Members,   The USPS Governors selected David Steiner as the 76th Postmaster General of the United States. He will start in July if he passes the ethics and security clearances underway. Chair McReynolds waited until the very end of the Board of Governors meeting to announce this news, which she…

Louis DeJoy has left the office of Postmaster General. Doug Tulino, a longtime USPS employee and Deputy Postmaster General will take over until the USPS Governors name a permanent PMG. It appears that TIME broke the story: https://time.com/7271271/louis-dejoy-resigns-postmaster-general/

  February 18, 2025   Alliance Members:   The Postal Service announced this morning that Louis DeJoy requested that the Governors begin a search for his successor. The announcement is here: https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2025/0218-usps-announces-tenure-plan-of-pmg-louis-dejoy.htm   DeJoy, in a letter dated Monday, told the USPS Board of Governors to begin the process of searching for a new Postmaster…

February 12, 2025   This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the January 2025 Consumer Price Index (CPI), which increased by 3.0 percent from January 2024 and increased by 0.5 percent from December 2024 (seasonally adjusted). https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf   The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) CPI price cap authority for a United States Postal Service (USPS)…

  September 13, 2024   Dear Alliance Members & Sponsors:   Our excellent General Counsel Eric Berman debunked the spurious claims made by USPS attorneys about the PRC regulatory review.   In a filing on behalf of the Alliance and all nonprofits yesterday, Berman explained the falsehood of USPS assertions:   USPS professes that the…