Category: Alliance Report

  • Postal Service Finances Continue Improving

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    Steve Kearney
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    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…

  • USPS Takes Some Pricing Uncertainty off the Table

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    Steve Kearney
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    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…

  • Oral Arguments Held in Exigent Appeal

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    Steve Kearney
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    September 10, 2014 Oral Arguments are Held in Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, et al. vs. Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) A very well prepared three-judge panel heard arguments yesterday in the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit about whether the PRC order on the exigent 4.3% rate surcharge should stand. Guessing at possible outcomes based…