Category: Alliance Report

June 18, 2020 Three senior Republicans responsible for House and Senate oversight of USPS wrote a letter June 8 to then-Postmaster General Megan Brennan requesting “…that the United States Postal Service (USPS) revise its projections for the direct impact of COVID-19.  In the first eleven weeks of the crisis, USPS revenues were $330,414,152 higher than…

June 18, 2020 In a ten-page order issued June 16, the Postal Regulatory Commission took no action to stop USPS from ending its Customized Postage program.  As the Postal Service tightened the rules governing allowable content in recent years, the demand for custom stamps dropped, licensed providers dropped out, and lawsuits filed by those not…

May 26, 2020 Large Bailout Not Needed For weeks since the earliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. Postal Service has been asking Congress for a bailout.  After receiving much less than it asked for in the CARES Act of March 27, $10 billion in new borrowing authority, USPS asked for much more. The…

May 26, 2020 Last week, the Alliance filed comments at the Postal Regulatory Commission in favor of retaining the customized postage program.  This allows customers to print their own custom stamps through an authorized USPS private sector partner.  Some nonprofits have found the stamps a very effective tool to increase response rates and as a…

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…