Category: Alliance Report

  • Informed Delivery

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    Alliance to Offer Nonprofit Informed Delivery Webinar as USPS Adds Phone Verification March 5, 2019 Very soon we will be sending an invitation to our nonprofit members and corporate sponsors to join us in a very targeted webinar on how nonprofit mailers can capitalize on the USPS Informed Delivery service to improve the results of…

  • Alliance Notes

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    Alliance Notes—Follow us on Twitter @NonprofitMailer February 5, 2019—Ecommerce Bytes— USPS Closer to Making Small Packets from Overseas Pricier February 7, 2019—The Straits Times— SingPost fined $100k for failing to meet local mail delivery standards in 2017 February 8, 2019—Bloomberg— Trump Aide Warns of Going It Alone on International Postal Rates February 11, 2019—NPR— Facing…

  • USPS Marketing Mail Merchandise Docs

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    Doc #1: MTAC Task Team 27 Communication Document – February 22, 2019  This document is intended to help communicate and socialize to a broader community within the mailing industry the potential next steps in addressing the Advance Federal Register Notice (AFRN) on potential changes to Marketing Mail content.  This AFRN was issued by the Postal…

  • Nonprofit Mailers Applaud

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    Nonprofit Mailers Applaud USPS Success in Package Market and Reasonable Regulatory Hurdle February 6, 2019 While we are major mailers of letters, flats and periodicals, nonprofits still benefit from U.S. Postal Service success in the package business.  Packages provide a large and growing amount of revenue that helps to fund USPS infrastructure and operations.  The…

  • Nonprofit Mailers Well-Represented

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    Nonprofit Mailers Well-Represented on Marketing Mail Task Team: Hopeful for Positive Results February 6, 2019 With several MTAC members representing nonprofits on the Marketing Mail Task Team, we are cautiously optimistic.  It has been 166 days since the Postal Service announced it was contemplating changes to the rules about allowable content in Marketing Mail (Standard…

  • 2019 USPS Tactile and Sensory Promotion

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    February 6, 2019 We recommend that nonprofits consider participating in the Postal Service’s tactile and sensory promotion.  For reasons very similar to nonprofits’ use of physical premiums, the USPS wants to encourage testing of specific kinds of enhancements that have been found to increase response rates.  They are offering 2 percent postage discounts for mailers…

  • PRC Now Has Full Five Commissioners

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    February 6, 2019 With the President’s Task Force report out, and the Postal Regulatory Commission with a full slate of Commissioners, something all mailers will need to watch for is further action by the PRC on its ten-year rate review. The Commission’s first proposal was widely panned by just about every party, and even three…

  • PRC Responding to the President on Inbound International Packages

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    February 6, 2019 PRC Chairman Robert Taub The Postal Regulatory Commission announced that it will host an off-the-record technical conference on February 15, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. in the Commission’s hearing room, which will be open to members of the public.  This might be the most highly-followed PRC technical conference in a long time because…

  • Alliance Notes

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    February 6, 2019 January 16, 2019—WNIP–Will the next recession be a bloodbath for publishers? January 16, 2019—BBC–Russian post offices raise funds with beer January 17, 2019—Harvard Business Review–Customer Surveys Are No Substitute for Actually Talking to Customers January 18, 2019—Popular Mechanics–12 Geeky Ways to Deliver Mail: U.S. Postal Service Technology Through the Ages January 18,…

  • Get Your Forever Stamps Now

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    Get Your Forever Stamps Now January 15, 2019 Effective Sunday, January 27, 2019, the postage rate for single-piece First-Class letter stamps will go up 5 cents to 55 cents.  Nonprofits should consider stocking up on 50 cent Forever stamps before the record 10 percent increase. Forever stamps retain their value indefinitely regardless of future postage…