Category: Alliance Report
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Thoughts of a USPS Customer, Nonprofit, MTAC and ANM Member
October 10, 2018 By Phil Claiborne, Circulation Director, Elks Magazine The United States Postal Service is “contemplating” ridding Marketing Mail of merchandise or goods, only paper-based printed matter would be allowed. First, let me say I dislike the name Marketing Mail, for its commercial connotation, I prefer Standard Mail. Second, what does this mean for…
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USPS Office of Inspector General Learns About Nonprofit Customers
October 3, 2018 The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General invited the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers to participate in an interactive session with many of its staff with the goal of furthering their understanding of this important customer segment. We responded by presenting on October 3 an all-star panel of nonprofit mailers who exemplified…
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Are Changes to Standard Mail on the Horizon?
Are Changes to Standard Mail on the Horizon? By Leo Raymond–Republished with permission by the author. October 9, 2018 An unfortunate yet chronic criticism of the Postal Service is that it seems to not understand its commercial customers’ businesses. What they do, why they do it, what their business objectives are – all that seems too…
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How the USPS’s Proposed Changes to Marketing Mail Hurts Customers
How the USPS’s Proposed Changes to Marketing Mail Hurts Customers By Phil Thompson–Republished with permission by the author. October 2, 2018 On August 23, the United States Postal Service filed a Federal Register with proposed changes to the definition of Marketing Mail Contents. This proposal has mailers at all levels very concerned, regardless of industry. Members…
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Informed Delivery – Numbers Growing
October 10, 2018 By Deborah Damore Informed Delivery is a service offered by the United States Postal Service whereby residential consumers can view online images of physical mail that is expected to be delivered that day. Users can view greyscale images of the exterior, address side of incoming letter-sized mail pieces (not the inside contents)…
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Alliance Notes—Articles Worth Reading
October 10, 2018 Government Executive, September 17, 2018– Senate Joins House in Passing Bill to Limit Postal Service Role in Opioid Crisis WTOP, September 18, 2018– Why college students don’t vote absentee? They don’t know where to buy a postage stamp CNBC, September 18, 2018– FedEx: Amazon’s new delivery service ‘should not be confused as…
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7 Things Wrong with the Federal Register Notice on Marketing Mail Content
September 12, 2018 On August 23, 2018, the U.S. Postal Service said this to its customers in a Federal Register Notice: This proposed change would limit all USPS Marketing Mail, regular and nonprofit, letter-size and flat-size, to content that is only paper-based/printed matter; no merchandise or goods will be allowed of any type regardless of…
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Alliance Notes
September 12, 2018 Folio, August 28, 2018– USPS’s Flats Sequencing System Comes Under Scrutiny WYMT, August 28, 2018– Eastern Kentucky man to serve on Postal Service board USPS Link, August 29, 2018– Board of Governors Nominees confirmed, other candidates announced Government Executive, August 30, 2018– White House Expected to Keep Postal Task Force Report Secret…
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Two USPS Governors Confirmed by Senate
August 29, 2018 Two more expected Two USPS Governors were confirmed by the Senate: Robert M. Duncan of Kentucky to fill the term expiring December 8, 2018, and David C. Williams of Illinois to fill the term expiring December 8, 2019. This follows a period of 20 months in which the U.S. Postal Service operated…
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Task Force Outlook
August 29, 2018 Many have been disappointed by the fact that the Administration has not released to the public the President’s Task Force on the United States Postal System. There have been many conflicting reports about its status. And many became very distracted by a separate report released well before the Task Force deadline of…