Category: Alerts

  • Consumer Reports Ends Two Publications

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    Alliance Alert – Consumer Reports Announces Discontinuance of Two Publications May 29, 2015 Consumer Reports announced that it will end publication of its ShopSmart magazine and Money Adviser newsletter following the mailing of one final issue. This decision comes as the 79-year old nonprofit implements a new digital transformation strategy. The flagship Consumer Reports magazine…

  • Letters to the Court on Exigent

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    Alliance Alert — May 20, 2015 Three Letters Sent to Court of Appeals Regarding Exigent Surcharge It has now been 255 days since the oral arguments were held by the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in the appeals of the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) decision in the exigent rate case. And no…

  • PRC Approves USPS Rates for May 31

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    Alliance Alert — May 7, 2015 Today, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approved the latest rates proposed by the United States Postal Service (USPS) for implementation on May 31, 2015. This was the USPS response to the second remand by the PRC. The USPS fixed discriminatory disparities in Standard Mail workshare discounts between commercial and…

  • USPS Files 3rd Version of Rates; Sets May 31

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    Alliance Alert – April 20, 2015 On April 16, the Postal Service filed the third version of its new rates and set May 31 as the implementation date, assuming approval by the Postal Regulatory Commission. They are not much changed from the previous versions. Many nonprofit publications will be hit with increases in postage several…

  • USPS Adjusts Periodicals, Sets May 31 for all Rates

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    Alliance Alert–April 16, 2015 The Postal Service today announced that, in response to concerns raised by the Alliance, it has reduced the large price increases it had previously proposed for light weight, low advertising magazines, primarily published and mailed by nonprofits. Nonprofit mailers are urged to contact their mail service providers for a recalculation of…

  • Counting the Days to 2015 Rates

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    Blending Rates Increase with Decrease Looks Increasingly Likely When the United States Postal Service (USPS) notified the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) that it will delay all of the 2015 Consumer Price Index (CPI) postage rate increases until further notice, it said that the notice will be announced “in the coming weeks.” There are very good…

  • USPS Delays April 26 Rate Changes

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    USPS announced late today that it will delay all rate changes scheduled for April 26, approved and not approved. It will set a new date when it files the corrections the PRC requires for Standard and Periodicals. USPS statement: The Postal Service Governors decided today to delay the implementation of new market-dominant and competitive rates…

  • PRC Rejects USPS a Second Time

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    April 26 Implementation Now Impossible The Postal Regulatory Commission today remanded the new rates submitted by the USPS just last Thursday, March 12. The April 26, 2015 implementation planned by the Postal Service will now not be met because we are now inside the 45 days notice required by law. The PRC news release: 3/18/2015…

  • Nonprofits Confused by USPS

    Nonprofits Confused by USPS

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    March 13, 2015 Last Friday, March 6, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) remanded some of the 2015 Postal Service rate increase proposal back to the USPS with a deadline yesterday, March 12, in order to keep the April 26 implementation date. In its revised rate case for Standard Mail, Periodicals, and Package Services filed yesterday, the…

  • PRC Returns Rates to USPS

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    Alliance Alert–Return to Sender March 6, 2015 Citing numerous errors, incomplete information, and failures to comply with the law, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) today remanded the current CPI-cap rate case back to the Postal Service for Periodicals, Standard Mail and Package Services. The full order can be read here. The PRC gave the USPS…