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Q1: Did it pass the House?   A1: Yes, the Postal service reform Act (PSRA) passed the House on February 8, 2022, after being introduced on May 11, 2021, and reported to the House on July 16, 2021.   Q2: Did the bill have bipartisan support?   A2: Yes, 342 members of the House voted…

1. USPS Reports $1.5 billion Q1 Loss with 4.1% Lower Mail Volume Following Record Rate Increases Budget vs. Service Back before the Delivering for America plan, USPS management had an unofficial belief that each fiscal year was either a “budget year” or a “service year.” The agency rarely has achieved excellence in both financial performance…

USPS operating cash does not jibe with its stated need to raise rates, and it is a waste United States Postal Service operating cash was $23.373 billion on December 31, 2021. (U.S. Department of the Treasury Monthly Statement of the Public Debt.) Here it is compared with the same date going back to 1990. (Three…

USPS Financials Not Good The Postal Service recently released its financial results for October, the first month of the 2022 fiscal year, and the second month after massive monopoly rate increases.  They are not good: October 2021 vs. October 2020 Total monopoly mail volume was down 14.1%. With much higher rates, monopoly mail revenue was…

Board of Governors Meeting Highlights Polarized Views of Louis DeJoy and His Ten-Year Plan Today’s USPS Board of Governors meeting illustrated the strong polarization of options about Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.  On the one hand, we had the Trump-appointed majority Governors, senior postal officers, and DeJoy himself giving highly-scripted endorsements of the PMG and his…

Alliance Report                                                                                                                                                          September 28, 2021 Issue 21/13 The leading voice for nonprofits on postal issues for over 40 years.                     © 2021 Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers—All rights reserved. A 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization established by nonprofits in 1980.   Mail Slowing October 1   The United States Postal Service is instituting slower mail standards…

Record rate hike coming Aug 29, unless the Court grants a “stay” Customers face a record increase in postage rates on Sunday, August 29, unless the U.S. Court of Appeals grants a “stay” request by the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers and other associations representing commercial mailers.  The authority to raise rates well above general inflation…

USPS set to slow down almost 40 percent of First-Class Mail and 7 percent of Periodicals in October   The Postal Service has been bragging recently with weekly press releases saying that its delivery service is getting back to where it was before the pandemic in some cases.  But that’s only temporary, as the agency…