Category: Alliance Report
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After 21 Years of Leadership by Fellow Career Employees, Postal Unions are Likely Concerned About a New PMG
October 22, 2019 – Postal unions much prefer to work with PMGs who came up through the ranks and belonged to a union earlier in their careers, as they have for the last 21 years. They appear to be concerned about who the next postal leader will be. It may seem counter-intuitive, but is…
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Mailers Express the Need to Work with the New Governors
October 22, 2019 – Associations, including your Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, representing the postage-paying mailers and the mail service industry this week sent the following open letter to the five new USPS Governors: October 21, 2019 c/o Robert M Duncan Chairman, United States Postal Service Board of Governors 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW Rm 10300 …
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Alliance Notes – October 22, 2019
Oct 21 – Transport Topics – FedEx Completes First Commercial Drone Delivery Oct 21 – CNBC – Stamps.com Shares Surge on UPS Partnership Oct 19 – Dawn – Google Competes First Drone Delivery in US Oct 19 – The Washington Post – Virginia town becomes home to nation’s first drone package delivery service Oct 18…
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The Elephant in the Room
October 1, 2019 Focusing on the Wrong Dichotomies There’s an elephant in the U.S. Postal Service policy room. We who follow USPS financial results have been focusing on two dichotomies that tell part of the story, but not the most important part as we look toward the future. The two favorite dichotomies…
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Alliance Notes
Alliance Notes October 1 ,2019 September 13 – Government Executive – Court Rules Postal Service’s Largest-Ever Stamp Price Increase Is Illegal September 17 – The NonProfit Times – Court Declares Postal Rate Increase Unlawful September 23 – Government Executive – Yet Another Impasse at the Postal Service as Two More Labor Contracts Expire September 25…
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USPS Loses 20-Year FFB Borrowing Deal; Retains Access
USPS Loses 20-Year FFB Borrowing Deal; Retains Access September 11, 2019 The Postal Service disclosed that it was unable to renew a very favorable borrowing agreement with the Federal Financing Bank of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Postal Service first signed the agreement on April 1, 1999 and had renewed it annually until…
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2020 Postage Rate Increase Now Trending Below 2%
2020 Postage Rate Increase Now Trending Below 2% September 11, 2019 The latest 12-month average CPI number published by the Postal Regulatory Commission is 1.978 percent, the lowest in the last two years. It incorporates the July CPI published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on August 14. The last and final component will be…
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Mailers Watch and Wait
Mailers Watch and Wait September 11, 2019 The wait continues. Who will act next in the quest to “reform” the Postal Service? We believe the next chapter will be written by the Postal Regulatory Commission. The regulator now has a slate that includes three new Commissioners—Vice Chairman Michael Kubayanda, Ann Fisher, and Ashley Poling. New…
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Alliance Notes
Alliance Notes September 11, 2019 August 28 – Logistics Management – FedEx Freight’s last-mile plans are moving forward August 29 – The Wall Street Journal – How Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx August 29 – Forbes – What Amazon’s One-Day Delivery Means for UPS, FedEx, Walmart and Target August 29 – Courthouse…
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Holding True to the 1970 Vision
August 28, 2019 Holding True to the 1970 Vision of a Mailer-Funded USPS The Postal Reorganization Act that was signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970, and the Kappel Commission that preceded it, had the primary goal of enabling the United States Postal Service to operate like a business. It had been a…