Category: Alliance Report

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…

All we want for Christmas is light at the end of the USPS tunnel Dear USPS, You have been urging us to write to Santa. We thought we mailers should write to you to tell you what we want, no need, from you, our exclusive provider of mail delivery. Right now you have us in…

Postal updates: The more things change…the more they stay the same Losses Despite the grand promises made by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and his Delivering for America (DFA) plan, longtime observers of the Postal Service see common themes repeating themselves. USPS just reported results for the Fiscal Year 2022 ending September 30. The agency lost…

October 11, 2022 Nonprofit mailer updates USPS files January rate hikes at PRC, using full 4.2% authority Yes, the Postal Service just raised rates in July and it’s doing it again in January. And yes, the FY 2023 rate increases could equal or exceed the record hikes of FY 2021 and 2022. The first salvo…

 September 22, 2022 Nonprofit mailer updates   USPS sitting on record cash as it hits mailers with large semi-annual rate hikes On August 31, 2022, the United States Postal Service held non-marketable Treasury Securities in the Postal Service Fund valued at $22,747,000,000. The agency continues to hold cash very near the record high, and well…

August 29, 2022 Nonprofit mailer updates January 22, 2023 rate hikes Just a reminder that we recently updated our projections for the next market-dominant mail rate hikes. These will be the first of promised semi-annual rate increases in July and January. The January rate surge will be based on six months of the Consumer Price…

Nonprofit mailer updates Comments to the PRC Many thanks to everyone who submitted comments to the Postal Regulatory Commission on the impact of above-inflation postage rate increases. In response to a question, the PRC said: “We do plan to make the comments available, and are working out the details regarding timing and format for doing…

PMG plans largest-ever revamp of USPS plants Postmaster General DeJoy recently shared with USPS employees his ambitious plans to completely revamp the network of procession plants. Presumably, he will share them with customers at the July 25 Mailers Technical Advisory Committee meeting.   In what probably would be the largest change in modern postal operations,…