Category: Alliance Report

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…

Mailers have been down by the institutions that are supposed to protect them from the abuse of power by the United States Postal Service.  The two most important groups that should protect mailers—the Board of Governors and the Postal Regulatory Commission—are disregarding and dismissing the needs of businesses and organizations that rely on USPS to…

June 28, 2021   In a filing today at the Postal Regulatory Commission, the Alliance made clear that the recent record rates filing by USPS is unlawful and should be rejected by the regulator.  The PRC to date has been ignoring the voice of the customer in its proceedings leading up to these disastrous rate…

June 28, 2021   The three new USPS governors appointed by President Biden were sworn in and attended their first closed meeting the week before last.  On June 15, White House Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice swore in Anton Hajjar, Amber McReynolds, and Ron Stroman at the Old Executive office Building in Washington, DC.  As…

June 28, 2021   To augment its required quarterly service performance reports, the Postal Service has taken to issuing press releases when service improves, or at least holds steady.  The latest release shows service improvements by 6 to 9 percentage points through most of the current third quarter:   Performance numbers below include the weeks…