Category: Alerts
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Alliance Alert–USPS Files With Full Rate Authority and 73 Cent Stamp
April 9, 2024 Dear Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers Members and Sponsors: Today, USPS filed at the PRC its proposal to use its full rate authority in July, including a 73 cent First-Class stamp rate. The increased rates will take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, July 14, 2024. We will send you the rates tables…
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Alliance Alert–PRC Initiates Rate Review & Senate to Hold USPS Hearing
April 5, 2024 Dear Members & Sponsors of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers: Today we have two significant announcements that should lead to solutions to the currently untenable situation with the USPS. PRC Rate Review First, the Postal Regulatory Commission initiated a new proceeding to comprehensively review the new pricing rules that the United States…
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Alliance Alert–Study Confirms Deeply Flawed USPS Pricing Strategy
March 20, 2024 Dear Alliance Members and Sponsors: A recently released study demonstrates that the U.S. Postal Service is relying on outdated and deeply flawed modeling to justify its pricing strategy. A copy of the study report is attached. As all mailers know, USPS has combined three recent developments to enable record-high rate increases on…
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Alliance Alert–Pres. Biden Nominates Marty Walsh to be USPS Governor
February 29, 2024 Alliance Members & Sponsors: Today, President Biden nominated Marty Walsh, former labor secretary and Mayor of Boston and current Executive Director of the National Hockey League Players’ Association to be a Governor of the U.S. Postal Service. It’s not a stretch to say that Walsh will be a friend of…
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Alliance Alert – 60 Percent Rule for Nonprofit Preferred Rates
January 29, 2023 Dear Members of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers: Today we speak up in support of the rule set by Congress for calculating nonprofit preferred postage rates. Background – USPS misdirection During its Annual Compliance Review, the Postal Regulatory Commission asks the Postal Service about what it will do to…
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Alliance Alert–USPS Losses Continue
November 14, 2023 The Postal Service reported that the agency lost $6.5 billion in FY 2023 which ended September 30. This contrasts with the promise to break even in the Delivering for America Plan. It also exceeds the annual planned loss of $4.5 billion published a year ago. USPS announced and the Governors approved a…
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Alliance Alert – USPS Finances Deteriorate Further
May 24, 2023 Alliance Members: The U.S. Postal Service just released its financial report for April and seven months of fiscal year 2023. In short, it’s getting worse…much worse. You’ve got to hand it to management to convince the Governors to approve another rate hike in July when they are driving mail away with record…
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Alliance Alert – USPS Files Full Rate Authority for July 9
April 10, 2023 Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers Members and Sponsors: The Postal Service Governors approved the use of virtually the full rate authority which the USPS just filed at the PRC. This includes a 66-cent single-piece First-Class letter (stamp) rate. The filing is here: https://www.prc.gov/docs/124/124885/R2023-2%20USPS%20Notice%20M-D%20Price%20Chg.pdf The press release is here:…
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Alliance Alert – The Nonprofit Times
March 8, 2023 Dear Alliance Members and Sponsors: We want to bring to your attention the front-page article in the March edition of The NonProfit Times, “Nonprofit Mailers Beat Rising Costs.” It features interviews with two of the leaders in nonprofit fundraising and mailing, who serve on the Board of Directors of…
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Alliance Alert–Nonprofit Mail Service Reporting
February 16, 2023 Dear Members and Sponsors of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers: We previously have reported that the Alliance suggested that the Postal Regulatory Commission require that the USPS report on service performance for nonprofit mail separately from commercial mail, for both Marketing and Periodicals Mail. The PRC agreed with this suggestion…