Category: Alliance Report
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USPS Webinar on Harvey Impacts
August 31, 2017 The United States Postal Service is holding a webinar on Friday, September 1, 2017 at 2 PM EST to provide information and answer questions regarding hurricane/tropical storm Harvey’s impact on Retail Operations, Delivery Operations and Drop Shipments. ATTENDEE INFORMATION Toll-Free Attendee Dial In: 866-381-9870 Conference ID: 79428518 Attendee Direct URL: https://usps.webex.com/usps/onstage/g.php?MTID=e0e32787091a1b655b3c422849235ee21 If…
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The Hill: A free-market fix to the Postal Service’s wasteful spending
BY LESLIE PAIGE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR – 08/29/17 The great eclipse of 2017 was a unique nationwide astrological phenomenon enjoyed by tens of millions of Americans. It was so significant that the United States Postal Service (USPS) engineered a ground-breaking stamp to commemorate the event. The stamp contains thermochromic ink, which allows it to transform from…
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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…