Category: Alliance Report

April 24, 2020   ->In Spite of Rumors and Innuendos   The United States Postal Service is doing quite well, given the circumstances.  It is in no danger of curtailing or shutting down.  The Postal Service is not reducing its services, except in very limited cases of inadequate employee availability and exposure in a processing…

April 10, 2020 On May 23, 2019, the Washington Nationals major league baseball team had an abysmal record of 19-31.  Virtually everyone was calling for the manager Dave Martinez to be fired and the roster to be overhauled.  But Nats general manager Mike Rizzo stayed with Martinez and most of the roster.  Martinez used three…

March 31, 2020 (c) 2020 Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers While this Alliance Report comes with no guarantees, we are very confident that United States Postal Service mail will continue to be very reliable and affordable.  We also strongly believe that the U.S. Government will ensure that its vital national infrastructure Postal Service will continue to…

March 18, 2020 The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers continues to focus on the use of mail by nonprofits in this time of crisis.  We believe that nonprofits should maintain or even increase their mailing programs as coronavirus precludes other avenues for the foreseeable future.   The personal touch of hard-copy delivered to our homes is always…

March 9, 2020 Last week we and others submitted our “reply comments” on the statements that had been filed previously on the Postal Regulatory Commission’s revised proposal to allow postage rate increases several times higher than general inflation as a near-term solution to try to save the United States Postal Service.  You can read the…

March 9, 2020 On March 4, we filed reply comments in the Statutory Review of the System for Regulating Rates and Classes for Market Dominant Products.  Many focus on the PRC reduction of the review to one of many objectives: “(5) assure adequate revenues, including retained earnings, to maintain financial stability.”  Our 30 pages are…

March 9, 2020 The one thing we can count on is continued uncertainty.  The Postal Regulatory Commission will deliberate in private for an unknown period of time.  The five Commissioners will read hundreds of pages submitted by customers, unions, business partners, suppliers, and employee organizations.  They will receive reports from and confer with their staff…

February 13, 2020 On February 3, 2020, the Alliance filed our initial comments in response to Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) Order No. 5337.  This was the Commission’s December 5, 2019 revised proposal to “bust the price cap” and grant the Postal Service significant above-inflation pricing authority over market-dominant mail products.  We were joined by eight…

February 13, 2020 Proponents of the new PRC proposal take some solace in the belief that price increases of this size will not cause a massive downward spiral in mail volume.  They say this without documented evidence.  There is no historical data with which to develop accurate price elasticity models for rate increases of the…

February 13, 2010 As we explain in our comments on the Postal Regulatory Commission to allow surcharges of 17 percent to 29 percent over inflation for five years, even the contemplation of such rate increases beyond any previous experience is likely to prompt mailers to make strategic decisions to leave the mail: The Postal Service…