Category: Press
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Mail Group Trio Attacks New Wage Agreement
June 3, 2017 – Connolly.House.gov Three large mailing organizations have attacked the Postal Service’s new wage agreement with the National Association of Letter Carriers, saying the pact shows that the USPS “cannot be trusted … to control its own costs.” In a June 1 essay, titled “USPS — Spendthrift Monopolist,” the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers,…
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Mailers’ Groups Blast NALC Deal
June 2, 2017 – PostalTimes.com Three mailers’ organizations blasted a labor deal with the National Association of Letter Carriers today as proof that the “spendthrift monopolist” U.S. Postal Service “cannot be counted on to control its costs or prices.” “Rather than bringing compensation more in line with the private sector – as required by postal…
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Hold on! Don’t set next year’s mailing budget just yet–Association TRENDS
2018 postage picture murky: Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers By STEPHEN M. KEARNEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALLIANCE OF NONPROFIT MAILERS | 05/11/2017 SHARE| For those nonprofit mailers working on next year’s budgets, the outlook for postage rates is unclear at best. Here are three main factors you need to take into account. 1. The regular CPI-capped annual…
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USPS Price Cap Change Not the Answer–Veritiv Key Notes
Veritiv Blog KEY NOTES – VOLUME 04 NUMBER 16 Erv Drewek | April 21, 2017 USPS Price Cap Change Not the Answer – The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers believes the last thing the U.S. Postal Service needs to fix its current predicament is price increases above inflation brought on by removal of the current CPI…
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Why FSS should be scrapped–Dead Tree Edition
Thursday, April 13, 2017 Why the Flats Sequencing System Should Be Scrapped A 2011 presentation explained how FSS would streamline the handling of flat mail. Oops! What many have long suspected has now been confirmed: The U.S. Postal Service’s Flats Sequencing System is a disastrous failure that cannot be fixed. The FSS is adding so…
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Publishers Battle USPS “Stupidity Tax”–Publishing Executive
VIEW FROM THE TREE April 11, 2017 Postal Rate Fight Continues as Publishers Battle USPS “Stupidity Tax” Source: Pixabay By D. Eadward Tree FACEBOOKFACEBOOKTWITTERTWITTERLINKEDINLINKEDINGOOGLE +GOOGLE+EMAILEMAIL4 COMMENTSCOMMENTS “Told you so. Now don’t try to slap us with a Stupidity Tax.” That, in essence, is the magazine industry’s response to the U.S. Postal Service’s latest attempt to…
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Raiding USPS Coffers Goes Back Years
April 10, 2017, Linn’s Stamp News Congress’ habit of raiding USPS coffers goes back almost 30 years. Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank came to Washington, D.C., in 1988 with a mandate to run the United States Postal Service like a business. That’s why the former California savings and loan executive was furious when he discovered…
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USPS Pushing PRC to Lift 10-year Price Cap
March 24, 2017 – Linn’s Stamp News U.S. Postal Service pushing PRC to lift 10-year cap on stamp price increases If you think that Postmaster General Megan Brennan has a difficult job trying to convince Congress to help the financially struggling United States Postal Service, you’re right. But that’s only one of the fights…
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The Alliance in The Hill: “Protect American Consumers”
In an op-ed article published March 22 by The Hill, the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, along with MPA – the Association of Magazine Media, and PostCom, reiterated the importance of affordable pricing, as well as a healthy, efficient Postal Service. “A healthy U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is in everyone’s interests, especially those of us who…
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MPA Preps for USPS Showdown
March 20, 2017 – Folio The association calls on the Postal Regulatory Commission to “protect captive users of the Postal Service” by maintaining its inflation-based rate cap. As the Postal Regulatory Commission’s 10-year review of USPS postage rates moves forward, the MPA has teamed up with a pair of mailer organizations to argue the…