Category: Alliance Report

November 24, 2015 Dennis Kaylor Dennis Kaylor exemplifies the kind of person who makes the Postmaster General’s Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) successful through his dedication to helping not only his employer, his association or his mail category, but the entire postal system. Dennis has worked in logistics for over 40 years and for the…

  November 24, 2015 Pricing Update On Monday, November 16, the USPS filed a Notice of Market-Dominant Price Adjustment to gain approval for mail promotions in 2016. The price adjustment included a zero percent price increase for First Class, Standard, and Periodical Mail.  Even though a zero percent price increase, the filing is required so…

November 24, 2015 The Nonprofit Times–Postal Rates To Stay The Same, Might Even Drop, By Andy Segedin – November 19, 2015:  “The United States Postal Service’s (USPS) leadership has publicly committed to having no general price increases for letter and flat mail in 2016. An overall price decrease for such mailings is possible for later in the year.…

November 4, 2015  Click the link to read the story Carper invites comments on his new postal bill by mail or email. Fred Thompson passed away Nov 1 at age 73. As chairman of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, he helped pass S.2686 in 2000, locking in the rate relationship between nonprofit and commercial mail.…

November 4, 2015 We reported on August 31 that Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had been working diligently with stakeholders representing customers, the mailing industry, employees, the Postal Service, the Postal Regulatory Commission, the Office of the Inspector General, the Government Accountability Office, and other…

October 15, 2015 Recently, a group of USPS customers got together and agreed on a “top ten” list of pricing suggestions for the Postal Service. The list was given to the Chief Marketing and Sales Officer Jim Cochrane. We really believe that following these suggestions is in the Postal Service’s best interest as they will…

October 15, 2015 There is no doubt that the U.S. Postal Service has a lot going on, but we want to emphasize that retaining its existing customers should not be lost or diminished in the business of everything else. In fact, we believe that customer retention is one of the most cost-effective and strategically important…

October 15, 2015 Over the past five years, USPS management has made multiple attempts—at the regulator, at the federal appeals court, and in Congress—to price well above the rate of inflation because it lost volume during the 2007-2009 recession. U.S. Postal Service leaders need to know that this is more than an academic exercise. It…

  October 15, 2015 2015 USPS Christmas shipping deadlines. Ballots and utility payments late in the mail. Postal Service lost dozens of college ACT exams. Inspector General looking into simplifying pricing for letters and flats. USPS governors are not the only Obama nominees frozen in Senate. Canada Post study shows how direct mail works well.…

  October 1, 2015 Sometimes being the U.S. Postal Service must feel like being an offensive lineman on a football team. The only times you get noticed or mentioned are when you commit a holding penalty, jump offside, or cause your quarterback to be sacked when you miss a block. For the U.S. Postal Service…