Category: Alliance Report
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Sometimes Moving Too Quickly Causes Problems
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…
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Senator Carper Continues to Express Optimism about Postal Reform Legislation in 2014
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…
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Canada Post Experiencing a Backlash as it Begins National Removal of Door-to-Door Delivery
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…
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October 22, 2014 Mailers Notes
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says he wants to stop the effort to privatize the Postal Service, stop the plans to close 82 more plants, and preserve 15,000 good-paying union jobs. Read more » CATO Institute says USPS should be privatized along with several other government agencies. Read more » Canadians are further upset that Canada…
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The Latest CPI Price Cap is 1.72%
Based on the September CPI release this morning the new cap is 1.72%. The next update will be based on the October CPI to be released November 20.
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October 7, 2014 Mailers Notes
Politicians are continuing to make their opposition to further postal plant closings clear. They are unlikely, however, to pass legislation preventing January’s start of the next round of closings.
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Alliance Board Welcomes Wounded Warrior Project
Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP), which provides vital support to wounded veterans of this generation, is joining the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers (ANM), the nation’s only organization that exclusively represents the mailing rights and needs of nonprofits. As a nonprofit that serves a widespread community through ongoing outreach, WWP relies on…
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As Crisis Recedes, So Do Chances for Postal Reform
When the Postal Service was down to about as many days of cash as you can count on one hand, it had a pretty compelling narrative to convince everyone including Congress that major new legislation was needed. In its latest 10-Q financial report, USPS has changed from quoting the exact number of days to “the…
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Postal Service Finances Continue Improving
Part of the reason the Governors were able to make the announcement they did on October 1 maintaining current prices through the next few months is that their financial results and liquidity are doing quite well. The latest Monthly Treasury Statement dated August 31, 2014 shows the Postal Service Fund with $5.1 billion in liquid…
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USPS Takes Some Pricing Uncertainty off the Table
Much uncertainty about USPS pricing in 2015 and beyond remains because of the pending appeals court decision on the exigent rate surcharge of 4.3 percentage points that customers are currently paying. With the oral arguments on September 9 that we reported in our newsletter the next day, the timing and substance of the court decision…