Category: Alliance Report

November 19, 2014 In additional to being a part of a line of outstanding operational leaders, Megan Brennan has known and worked with Pat Donahoe for much of her career. They both come from Pennsylvania and are both products of the Sloan Fellowship program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Here is her official…

November 19, 2014 The two most important functions of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the United States Postal Service (USPS) are to raise rates and pick a new Postmaster General. We all know that the BoG has been exercising its rate-raising muscles for some time, with annual Inflation-capped increases and the January 2014 exigent…

House hearing on USPS data security. Learn more » Several vying to be Chairman Issa’s replacement. Learn more » Alliance sponsor Quad Graphics explains USPS delivery performance. Learn more » A new Inspector General report on the USPS Universal Service Obligation. Learn more »  Sen. Jon Tester statement on New PMG Megan Brennan. Learn more »  PMG…

Esquire blog post says business at USPS should be booming. Learn more » Print magazines have a future, as CNET adds one to its online presence. Learn more »  Lame-duck postal reform prospects are not great. Learn more » Postal Sales VP Cliff Rucker discusses USPS package shipping competitive advantages. Learn more »  Joe Schick…

Last week lawyers representing the Alliance and seven other mailer groups submitted a white paper to the PRC. The full text is available here. The paper concerns the extent of the PRC’s authority with respect to the review the 2006 postal law directs it to perform in 2017, ten years after the enactment of the…

While reform legislation has a very low probability of happening, the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals about the exigent rate case definitely will be issued in the near future. It is now 57 days since the September 6 oral arguments and a decision could come any time, but almost certainly before Christmas. We…

Even though some have expressed hope for postal reform legislation during the lame-duck session that will take place before the new Congress starts in January, we continue to believe that it is highly unlikely. Senator Carper’s office expresses optimism and a burning need for legislation, and a group of business mailers who have teamed with…

Alliance Report 14/20 October 22, 2014 Postal Service management promised in recent years that it would move much more quickly implementing major system improvements designed to save costs and improve the efficiency of mail. There have been several cases in which the faster pace has caused customers to experience errors and costly fixes. The latest…

Alliance Report 14/20 October 22, 2014 With the USPS poised to announce a large operating profit for Fiscal Year 2015, and having ended the year with $5.45 billion in cash in the Postal Service Fund on September 30 according to the Monthly Statement of the Public Debt, hopes for near-term crisis-driven major postal reform have…

Alliance Report 14/20 October 22, 2014 In what might be a foreshadowing of what the United States Postal Service (USPS) could experience, the public and the media in Canada are not happy with the beginning this week of a major phasing out of door-to-door postal delivery and phasing in of neighborhood cluster boxes. Here is…