Category: Alliance Report
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All New Governors and Commissioners Sworn In
August 28, 2019 All New Governors and Commissioners Sworn In The USPS Board of Governors now has a quorum for the first time in a long time, with five presidentially appointed Governors sworn in. The new Governors will now be able to weigh-in on the “ten-year plan” that the USPS has been promising since an…
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USPS Might Temper Rate Increases on Drop-Shipped MM Letters
August 28, 2019 Facing its Own High Transportation Costs, USPS Might Temper Rate Increases on Drop-Shipped MM Letters Many nonprofits use these letters for fundraising and membership We have reported often that over the last three years, USPS, under orders from its regulators, has been raising rates on Marketing Mail letters much more than the…
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Alliance Notes
Alliance Notes – August 28, 2019 August 14 – Streets Blog NYC – UNACCOUNTABLE! The United States Postal Service is a Rogue Company Delivering Road Violence August 15 – Business Insider – The US Postal Service’s volumes tanked for the first time in nearly a decade — here’s why insiders say FedEx and Amazon are…
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USPS Package Volume Drops First Time in 9 Years
August 13, 2019 The main bright spot in U.S. Postal Service operations has been the last-mile delivery of packages called Parcel Select. The USPS has had a major competitive advantage in the last mile as its letter carriers already were going to every address six days a week. (An exception has been the addition of…
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USPS Informed Delivery Promotion has a Couple Twists
August 13, 2019 Promotion Period: September 1 – November 30, 2019 Registration Period: July 15 – November 30, 2019 The Alliance has been encouraging nonprofit mailers to try out Informed Delivery for quite some time. Now you can receive a 2 percent postage discount during a three-month period. But it’s very important that you read and follow…
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The Last Temporary Emergency Committee Meeting
August 13, 2019 We hope that the August 9 meeting was the last of the USPS Temporary Emergency Committee (TEC). At it, the Postal Service reported flat revenue of $17.1 billion for the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2019, but total operation revenue of $19.3 billion, up 4.3 percent, causing a loss of nearly $2.3…
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Alliance Notes
August 13, 2019 July 30 – Business Insider – UPS drivers are ditching commercial navigation apps for an in-house tool. The chief engineering and information officer explains how it’s already saving the company millions. August 2 – Government Executive – USPS Regains a Functioning Governing Board for the First Time in Five Years August 2…
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Expect a Standard CPI Rate Increase January 26, 2020
July 30, 2019 We expect the Postal Service to announce proposed rate increases before October 10, to go into effect on January 26, 2020. We project the increases will average a little over 2 percent for each class of mail (First-Class, Marketing, Periodicals). The CPI cap will be finalized with the September 12 release by…
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Pricing Wisdom vs. Pricing Freedom
July 30, 2019 Recently, we posted on LinkedIn an editorial titled “Reforming the Postal Service” published by The Washington Times on July 28 which you can read here. While the editorial’s main point is that USPS needs to retain the price advantage of its parcel deliveries, we think the same point also applies to its…
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Defining the USPS Universal Service Obligation
July 30, 2019 It is de rigueur these days to bring up the Postal Service’s Universal Service Obligation and its cost. The most accurate USO definition is the cost of everything USPS does now that it would not do in a competitive, non-monopoly environment. The USO covers the “public goods” the postal system creates and…