Category: Alliance Report
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Awaiting big PRC decisions
November 3, 2017 USPS proposal to change the ratio between Nonprofit and Commercial Marketing Mail At some point relatively soon, the Postal Regulatory Commission will issue a decision that could have an additional detrimental impact on nonprofit fundraisers. It is likely to either keep the status quo used for the past ten years, basing the…
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Alliance notes
November 3, 2017 USA Today–Package wars: Postal Service eyes next-day Sunday delivery for holidays Townhall–Low Volume, Tough Competitive Environment No Time To Raise Prices … Unless You’re USPS The White House–President Donald J. Trump Announces Key Additions to his Administration USA Today–Postal Service expects 10% rise in holiday mail volume …
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Now That’s the Kind of Innovation We Like to See!
October 19, 2017 Recent examples on several fronts have focused us on the possibilities for better control of postal costs and expansion of revenue opportunities outside of pure price increases. For example: Legislation Would Allow Postal Service to Ship Alcoholic Beverages USPS plans to deploy self-driving trucks by 2025 Deutsche Post DHL to deploy self-driving…
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USPS Proposed Mailing Standards Changes
October 19, 2017 Along with the proposed price changes, USPS published in the Federal Register changes to its mailing standards. While some of the actual pricing seems to move away from encouraging work-sharing, the rules adjustments appear to be an attempt to increase and facilitate it. Mailers and their service providers should check the rules…
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Rate Changes Have Lots of Variation
October 19, 2017 Recently announced rate changes have lots of variation around the average 1.9%. The monopoly mailing rate changes announced recently for January 21, 2018 implementation average an increase of about 1.9 percent, but mailers need to check their type of mail to find out the real impact. There is much variation from the…
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Alliance responds to unusual USPS reply comments in 60% case
October 3, 2017 This is “Periodic Reporting Proposal 8.” The Postal Service has had a much easier time getting its way in the previous proposals. For example, predecessors have generated only a few documents: Proposal 4: 20 documents; Proposal 5: 15 documents; Proposal 6: 33 documents; and Proposal 7: 12 documents. Proposal 8 has attracted…
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USPS to announce historic 2018 rates proposal before Friday the 13th
October 3, 2017 The United States Postal Service is likely to inform its customers and the Postal Regulatory Commission of its historic 2018 rate increase proposal prior to Friday, October 13, when the next Consumer Price Index is released. Why historic? It will be the first general postage increase in which the rates were not…
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Nonprofit rate hike not included
October 3, 2017 The proposed 2018 rates will not incorporate the USPS proposal to further hike nonprofit Marketing Mail rates well above inflation by reversing the way it calculates the ratio to commercial rates. The action at the PRC continues. The USPS proposed the change on July 31, and 87 organizations submitted comments in mid-September.…
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Alliance notes
October 3, 2017 Alliance notes—articles worth reading Association TRENDS–Alliance represents all nonprofits in opposing USPS proposal to change preferred rates Veritiv Blog–USPS Nonprofit Proposal Eight Battle Continues USPS Inspector General–Autonomous Vehicles for the Postal Service Composites Manufacturing–K. Royal Mail Begins Trials of Autonomous, Electric Delivery Trucks Federal News Radio: Jake Soffronoff: Is driverless delivery coming…
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Alliance leads opposition to preferred rate change
September 20, 2017 Alliance represents all nonprofits in opposing USPS proposal to change preferred rates At stake: Nonprofit Marketing Mail rate increases of 3.3% to 6.9% on top of other increases USPS filing attempts to solve nonexistent problem The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, as it always does, took a strong position to support and protect…