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No Plan B More people than usual have been asking us lately, what’s up with the Postal Service? The short answer is that it’s a one-man show, more than ever before, and there’s no Plan B. There is Louis DeJoy and his Delivering for America plan. That’s it. The Postal Service is an essential agency…

  August 10, 2023 Rates Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index for July. This is the fifth of six monthly CPI numbers that will determine the price cap for the expected January 2024 postal rate hikes. Through July 12, the Postal Regulatory Commission had the price cap pegged at 1.39%.…

The good news for mailers: CPI inflation is moderating The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) released today is very positive for mailers. As we know, much of the recent postage rate increases have been based on the CPI. You can see this in the non-red, lower segments of the bar chart below. We expect CPI…

Very light regulatory oversight of USPS is a problem Many have believed for some time that the United States Postal Service enjoys very light, even lax regulatory oversight. It makes the recent complaints by Postmaster General DeJoy seem way off base. Never before has the leadership of the Postal Regulatory Commission admitted its weakness so…

Alliance Report                                                                                                                                        May 31, 2023 Issue 23/06   The leading voice for nonprofits on postal issues for over 40 years.                                                                                           © 2023 Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers—All rights reserved. A 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization established by nonprofits for nonprofits.   For the first time, a USPS rate hike on monopoly mail does not…

Alliance files opposition to July 9 rates Urges PRC to reject USPS proposal Today, the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers filed comments with the Postal Regulatory Commission urging the regulator to reject the rate increases proposed by the Postal Service for Market Dominant Mail in July: The Commission cannot continue to allow the Postal Service to…

Mail volume is plummeting PMG says he’s not causing it Expect a full rate filing next week The USPS financial report for February, the fifth month in FY 2023, was released, and the mail volume decline seems to be accelerating. And packages are not compensating, as the Postal Service’s ten-year plan says they will. Mail…

February 28, 2023 Troubling USPS report The report filed by the U.S. Postal Service with the Postal Regulatory Commission on the mail and package agency’s results through January 2023 is very troubling. Volumes are down much more than expected and losses are more than twice what the agency projected in its official Integrated Financial Plan…

February 2, 2023 Bad news and good news First, the bad news. At the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee meeting this week, USPS VP for pricing and costing gave the agency’s first estimate of the rate increase authority it expects to have, and most likely fully use, in July 2023. Sharon Owens forecast the general July…

Nonprofit mail volume since the peak We have updated our data on nonprofit mail volumes since Fiscal Year 2006, the year overall mail volume peaked at 213 billion. FY 2022 ended on September 30, 2022. We always point out that these data do not include all the First-Class Mail that nonprofits mail themselves and generate…