Category: Alerts
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Alert – 2017 Promotions & Incentives
The U.S. Postal Service has published the final program requirements for the 2017 Promotions & Incentive programs. Please click on the links below to learn more about qualifying for these incentives, and how they can benefit you. 2017 Promotion Calendar At-A-Glance We especially encourage nonprofit mailers to consider the Earned Value promotion. If you…
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Alert – Nonprofit Rate Changes for 2017
Additional information regarding the recent USPS rate filing and how it will affect Standard Mail Nonprofit rates is now available. Please read on to learn more about how this affects your rates, and how to manage the changes. Updated rate charts for Nonprofit Periodicals, as well as Standard Letters and Flats are available HERE. The…
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USPS Announces Pricing Changes For 2017
The USPS has released the following Industry Alert, announcing the pricing changes for 2017 filed with the PRC today. Postal Service Announces 2017 Mailing Services Prices Single Price for Commercial Letters up to 3.5 ounces, Adjusts FSS Pricing; Allows Extra Weight for Standard Flats WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service today filed notice with the…
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Advance Notice of 2017 USPS Changes
The Postal Service has posted several important notices of their plans for next year’s pricing and product changes. These come in response to suggestions by customers that USPS provide more advance notification of coming pricing and product changes. They also are a product of the new Pricing & Costing and Product Management…
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Alliance Alert–New Draft Postal Bill
June 15, 2016 The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a discussion draft of a bipartisan postal reform bill. The full bill is available here. And a summary is available here. Stakeholders will have until June 29 to comment to the committee staff. More to…
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Alliance Alert—Postage coming down April 10, 2016
Alliance Alert February 25, 2016 February 25, 2016 USPS just announced that postage will be coming down on Sunday, April 10, 2016, as the 4.3 percent exigent surcharge is removed and rates are returned to the Consumer Price Index-capped levels. Spring rollback pricing available here. USPS news release here.
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USPS Announces New Lower Spring Prices
The USPS just announced new lower spring prices for postage. The date had not yet been set but it expected to be around April 10, 2016 that all postage rates are reduced 4.3 percent. This results from a years’ long effort by the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers and its allies to ensure…
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USPS to provide post-exigent prices
February 4, 2016 USPS to provide post-exigent prices tomorrow, February 5 Date for removal of 4.3 percent surcharge not yet set We received the following notification from Erv Drewek, industry chair of the Postmaster General’s Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC): TO: MTAC Association Executives & Representatives Yesterday evening I was informed the new…
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Jerry Mathis named to Alliance executive committee
President Meta Brophy announced that the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers board of directors elected Jerry Mathis of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to its executive committee in December 2015. Mr. Mathis also will serve as the secretary of the board. He previously was a member of the board and replaces Laura Grafeld of the American Management…
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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…