Category: Alliance Report
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Is USPS Declaring War on Nonprofit Fundraising Mail?
August 31, 2017 Current U.S. Postal Service proposals for postage rate increases for nonprofit fundraising mail (Marketing Mail) could add up to over 20 percent. That is a clear indication to some that the USPS does not want nonprofits in the mail. While all of the proposals are not likely to gain approval, they are…
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Nonprofit Mailers Aren’t Happy – Three Reasons Why
August 14, 2017 Nonprofit mailers are not happy – and here are three reason why. 1. USPS is not responding to adversity like a business On August 7, the National Association of Letter Carriers announced that they had ratified a labor agreement with the U.S. Postal Service. Read the announcement by the NALC here. And…
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A Look at USPS Costs Versus Volume
July 13, 2017 With the release of U.S. Postal Service financial results for the first 8 months of Fiscal Year 2017 (October 2016-May 2017), some have emphasized that the USPS lost 2.5 billion pieces of mail, equal to 2.4 percent. In the business world, this degree of contraction calls for stringent cost reductions to keep…
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USPS files 2016 Governors’ Resolution for 2018 Move Update Price Change
July 13, 2017 As if to illustrate just one aspect of the lack of Postal Service Governors, yesterday the USPS took the usual step of publicly filing its Governors’ Resolution to raise the penalty fee for Move Update as well as the method of determining compliance. In spite of its plural title, the resolution was…
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And Then There Were None…
July 13, 2017 AND THEN THERE WERE NONE…HOW CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE HAVE ABANDONED THE POSTAL SERVICE We have reported before about the governance vacuum at the Postal Service. With the lack of action by the Senate, the usual nine Presidentially-appointed USPS Governors dwindled to only one at the beginning of December 2016, and…
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Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Lack of Governors…
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor lack of governors will stay USPS from filing for 2018 rate increases It looks like the USPS will file for a rate increase this October for January 2018, as we speculated they would in our last issue. We raised the uncertainty because normally only postal governors can take such an…
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Informed Delivery® Wildly Popular
The most important innovation by the Postal Service to retain mail volume and remain relevant is growing organically at 3,000 new users per day. And when the USPS puts on a promotion, it can yield as many as 20,000 new customers in a single day. Over 2.25 million Informed Delivery® household customers are distributed across…
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Total Charitable Donations Rise to a New High
Giving USA: Total Charitable Donations Rise to New High of $390.05 Billion Giving by individuals grows nearly 4 percent, driving the rise in total giving; contributions to all nine major philanthropy subsectors increase—the sixth time in the last four decades CHICAGO [June 13, 2017]—American individuals, estates, foundations and corporations contributed an estimated $390.05 billion to…
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USPS testing legal limits
June 14, 2017 The USPS is pushing the legal envelope in two ways. First, it wants to override the CPI price cap that is written into law. And second, it is likely to propose rate increases for 2018, even if it has no Governors to approve the decision. The Postal Service is now testing whether…