Category: Alliance Report
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Magazine Publishers Publish a Magazine
Magazine Publishers Publish a Magazine March 20, 2018 You might think it’s a dog bites man story. But it really is man bites dog. The association representing magazines published a special magazine. Magazines are stepping up their opposition to the Postal Regulatory Commission’s proposal that would raise postage rates 40 percent in the next five…
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Major Magazine Will Cease Mailing if PRC Proposal Happens
Major Magazine Will Cease Mailing if PRC Proposal Happens March 20, 2018 ESPN The Magazine promised it will cease mailing all of its 2,000,000 magazines if the PRC program becomes reality. ESPN is a top-30 magazine, about the size of the nonprofit magazine, Guideposts. Hearing that it will leave the mail completely is not a…
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USPS Covers up its 5-year Forecast
USPS Covers up its 5-year Forecast: Justification for Removal of Price Cap March 20, 2018 There are many ironies in this ten-year anniversary review of the PRC pricing system. But one of the ultimate ironies is to be found in the monopoly government agency’s secrecy about its five-year forecast. To help justify removing the price…
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USPS Facts & Figures
USPS Facts & Figures A Decade of Facts & Figures March 20, 2018 The Postal Service has a table that shows a decade of facts and figures. It not surprisingly does not have figures about productivity or cost control. But it does make for some interesting comparisons with 2010 when the USPS issued Ensuring a…
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Alliance Notes
Alliance Notes—Articles Worth Reading March 20, 2018 The NonProfit Times, March 2, 2018–Groups Challenge Legality Of Postal Hike ISSUU, March 5, 2018–Magazine Media Response to PRC Proposal Office of Inspector General, March 5, 2018–A New Reality: Correspondence Mail in the Digital Age Linn’s, March 7, 2018–New USPS mail processing plant to set open soon in…
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Nonprofits Speak Out
March 9, 2018 In response to the Postal Regulatory Commission proposal to allow the USPS to raise postage rates as much as 7 percent a year, or 40 percent in five years, the nonprofit community has spoken out. About 130 individual nonprofits wrote letters to the PRC urging Commissioners Taub, Hammond, Langley, and Acton to…
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USPS has a “flawed business model”
February 16, 2018 But what is the proposed new business model? The headline in an article quoting Postmaster General Megan Brennan on the Federal News Radio website this week: “Postal Service: ‘Flawed business model’ to blame for first-quarter loss.” We have been hearing that the USPS “business model” is broken, flawed, unsustainable, or obsolete for…
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Alliance notes
February 16, 2018 Linn’s: A proposal for multidenomination coils; could such a format help nonprofit mailers? Linn’s: Charities continue to use stamps on reply envelopes to encourage donations NALC: Trump administration’s 2019 budget targets letter carriers and their families R Street: THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE’S FINANCIAL CONDITION: 2018 Government Executive: Trump Suggests USPS Cut Retirement,…
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New 2018 Postal Prices Routinely in Effect
January 30, 2018 Is This the End of Routine Rate Changes? A week ago, the latest annual price change by the Postal Service went into effect, smoothly and with little notice. What use to be a big deal, attracting extensive notice by the media, large mailers, and the general public, now is routine. For that…
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PRC Process in Place for Classification Changes that Amount to Rate Changes
January 30, 2018 But Will the CPI Cap Mean Anything? You might remember that the Alliance objected, along with many others, when the USPS first proposed to included new Full Service Intelligent Barcode requirements to qualify for automation rates in 2014. The PRC agreed with the objectors that it was a stealth rate increase. It…