Category: Alerts

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.  

      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…

    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…

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…

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…

Alliance Alert — July 30, 2015 Late yesterday, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) issued what we hope will be the last word on the campaign by the United States Postal Service (USPS) to receive above-inflation revenue from its customers to compensate for volume losses caused by the 2007-09 recession. This action comes five years after…

Alliance Alert — July 22, 2015 Any day now, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) is likely to issue what should be the final decision on the 4.3 percent exigent surcharge that customers are paying to compensate the Postal Service (USPS) for losses it sustained from the 2007-09 recession. The case was remanded to the PRC…

July 6, 2015 Today the reply comments were due at the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) in the seemingly never-ending attempt by the United States Postal Service (USPS) to increase the amount of above-inflation surcharge revenue it gets from its customers to “compensate” it for mail volume losses due to the 2007-2009 recession. The Alliance of…

Alliance Alert – June 11, 2015 Today, the Alliance and many other groups of customers filed a response at the Postal Regulatory Commission to the Postal Service attempt to expand the remand beyond the “count once” methodology. Our response can be read here and begins as follows:   “The undersigned mailer parties submit this response…

June 5, 2015 Today, we received the much-anticipated decision by the court on the 4.3 percent exigent surcharge that all mailers have been paying. The US Appeals Court ruled today that the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) was reasonable to determine that the impact of the 2007-2009 recession is exceptional only for a limited time until…