Category: Alliance Report

April 29, 2021   Union objects to consolidation plans   Not surprisingly, the American Postal Workers Union quickly objected to the USPS announcement that it will consolidate 18 mail processing plants.  The USPS management announcement said:   The movement of mail processing operations at 18 facilities previously paused in 2015. Those select moves will follow…

April 14, 2021   As the first substantive step in a rather long, “expedited” legal process, the Alliance and its mailer allies, and the USPS, filed initial briefs with the U.S. Court of Appeals on April 13.  The schedule will last well beyond the Postal Service’s first tax on mailers expected this summer or fall.…

April 14, 2021 After drawing down $8.464 billion of its CARES Act appropriation, USPS was reported by Treasury to hold $25.77 billion in cash and securities in the Postal Service Fund on March 31, 2021.  This is a record amount of cash held by USPS. They have access to another $1.5 billion in CARES money…

April 14, 2021 https://about.usps.com/video/DeliveringForAmericaOurVision.mp4 The USPS is moving forward with the plan.   PMG DeJoy has been briefing mailers associations and editorial boards about his new strategic plan.  But he is clearly not open to changes or criticisms.  He intends to implement the plan as is.   The plan relies on a very pessimistic mail…

March 25, 2021   The Plan is Fatally Flawed   On March 23, the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service, headlined by Chairman Ron Bloom and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, announced their new strategic plan with much fanfare.  Mailer, customer, and service provider associations that were not at all involved in developing the plan, saw…

March 25, 2021 USPS Conference on Service Degradation   Moving rapidly to show its resolve to implement its plan, the Postal Service announced its intention to file at the regulator for service degradation:   Pursuant to 39 C.F.R. § 3020.111(d), the Postal Service provides the Postal Regulatory Commission (“Commission”) this Notice of its intent to…

March 25, 2021   February Results: Question the Plan Forecast   Everyone who is taking as given the USPS forecast of a ten-year loss of $160 billion absent its new plan should think twice.  The whole plan is predicated on this expected cumulative loss.   But USPS is profitable five months into FY2021.  It has…