Category: Alerts

  • Alliance Alert: The CPI-Based Rate Increase

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    Steve Kearney
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    The 2006 legislation allows the Postal Service to increase rates on captive mail products as needed to recover inflation as measured by the CPI. The Postal Service filed a request for such a rate increase in September 2013. While most rate adjustments of this kind are largely unopposed, this one was controversial.