Category: Alliance Report

June 26, 2015 Alliance notes USPS to expand grocery deliveries to New York City. USPS Board of Governors meet with PRC. USPS and APWU battle over service standards. Undeliverable as Addressed mail is costly to customers and not being reduced. Support for USPS banking won’t go away. com drone deliveries expected next year. IRS wants…

Court rules on exigent; USPS assumes at least $1.4 billion more surcharge revenue; will argue for more; asks PRC to continue surcharge while it deliberates; customers face continuing uncertainty and higher postage – June 10,2015 We reported on the U.S. Appeals Court ruling on Friday in an Alliance Alert. The court ruled that the Postal…

Customers matter – June 10, 2015 When a business, organization or government agency that is funded by customers experiences a crisis that threatens its relevance, what does that entity need most? It needs its customers, of course. It needs loyal customers who will stay with it through thick and thin because they value what the…

Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers notes – June 10, 2015 Megan Brennan’s mission to save the USPS USPS cannot keep emergency price hike forever, court rules USPS can’t increase rates forever USPS court victory will cost mailers billions Exigency to cost mailers at least $1.2 billion more USPS deploying $250 million mobile devices primarily  for package…

Exigent Surcharge’s Days Might be Numbered   On January 26, 2014, postage rates increased by an average of 6 percent. Part of that was the Consumer Price Index (CPI) cap increase of 1.696 percent, and the rest was a 4.3 percent exigent surcharge that was applied across the board. Today we mark the passing of…

USPS Plant Consolidations Delayed Until 2016 May 27, 2015 The USPS shelved plans to consolidate 82 mail processing plants during 2015 in the second phase of its “network rationalization” that was supposed to save $750 million annually in addition to the $865 million savings from the 2012 phase one closing of 141 plants. This decision…

PMG Names Solid Executives to Key Posts May 27, 2015 Recently, Postmaster General Megan Brennan named James Cochrane as Chief Marketing and sales Officer and Randy Miskanic as Chief Information Officer. While both are in an acting status they should be great permanent appointments. Jim Cochrane has broad experience over his 39 years at USPS…

Case Study: Consumer Reports May 27, 2015 Consumer Reports began publication as a nonprofit with no advertising in 1936. It now publishes its flagship magazine plus three related newsletters: Shop Smart, On Health, and Money Adviser. Consumer Reports takes mailing very seriously as it spends over $30 million on postage annually, one third of which…

Troubling Pricing Signals May 27, 2015 The pricing signals that the USPS is sending to its customers are troubling and we think damaging to the future of USPS for many reasons: They are excessively large and will cause mail to leave the postal system. They greatly exceed the rate of the Consumer Price Index (CPI)…

Report from MTAC for Nonprofits May 27, 2015 By Dennis Kaylor, Alliance Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) Representative and Postal Affairs Manager at Our Sunday Visitor, dkaylor@osv.com Nonprofit Validation in eDoc With the introduction of the United States Postal Service (USPS) Full Service requirements a few years ago came the promise for a new method…