Category: Alerts

July 17, 2025 Dear Alliance Members:   New Postmaster General David Steiner sent a letter and a video address to all USPS employees. In them, he expresses confidence in the agency’s ability to succeed under the current structure as an independent establishment of the executive branch. Mr. Steiner rejects calls for the privatization or supplemental…

  July 17, 2025   Dear Alliance Members:   The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers joined several other excellent associations to urge the Postal Regulatory Commission and the United States Postal Service to price the upcoming zoned USPS Marketing Mail to achieve the lowest combined cost between the private and public sectors. This will benefit the…

July 14, 2025   Dear Alliance Members:   Late on Friday, July 11, the United States Postal Service filed an official notice with its regulator, the Postal Regulatory Commission. Because the USPS submitted the notice so late in the day, the PRC accepted and posted it today. To wit, the five USPS Governors voted on…

  June 25, 2025   Dear Alliance Members:   It’s a win for mailers.   This afternoon, the Postal Regulatory Commission issued an order denying the United States Postal Service’s request to remove Bound Printed Matter (BPM) from the product list.   The PRC concluded:   The Commission finds that the Postal Service’s rationale for…

  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…