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Legislation Aims to Stop Delivering Mail to Your Door! You are here: Home » Featured » Legislation Aims to Stop Delivering Mail to Your Door! June 29, 2016 A postal reform bill containing multiple options to improve the profitability of the U.S. Postal Service is being considered by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and…

  Stakeholders Voice Concerns Over Latest Postal Reform Efforts By Eric Katz June 28, 2016 4 Comments David Goldman/AP file photo Share this on Facebook10 Tweet this on Twitter Share this on Google Plus Share this on LinkedIn2 Print this article Email this article Increase size House lawmakers earlier this month introduced a measure with…

Postal reform: The time to comment is now Nonprofits need to keep an eye on Congress and the postal regulator: their use of mail could be in jeopardy By STEPHEN M. KEARNEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALLIANCE OF NONPROFIT MAILERS | 06/23/2016 SHARE| Many nonprofits rely heavily on postal mail to raise funds, share information, and distribute newsletters and…

April financial results better than U.S. Postal Service predicted  May 25, 2016 01:56 PM Despite a reduction in stamp prices April 10, the United States Postal Service turned in strong financial results for the month of April. Facebook Tweeter Google + Get Link By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent Some mailers are saying that the end…

Al Urbanski, Senior Editor May 24, 2016 Mailers Want a Quick-Fix Reform Bill, But Will USPS Go Along? Share this content: facebook twitter linkedin google Email Print Shore up finances, forget rates, and get back to business as usual, plead mailers as Rep. Chaffetz readies a bill. Sen. Tom Carper and his quest for postal reform…

Al Urbanski, Senior Editor   February 26, 2016 On April 10, Bid Farewell to Exigency! It will be a red letter day for direct mailers and catalogers, who’ll shed the despised 4.3% postal surcharge. It was the worst Christmas present they’d ever gotten. It was like a bushel of coal in a mailbag for direct…

Postal Rates To Drop 4.3% In April By Mark Hrywna – February 26, 2016 More than two years after it first went into effect, the 4.3-percent surcharge on postal rates will disappear as of April 10. Barring any congressional or court action, it would be just the third time in its history that the United…

POSTAL UPDATES Cost of first-class letter to drop to 47¢ effective April 10 February 25, 2016 06:38 PM On April 10, the cost to mail a domestic first-class letter will drop 2¢, from 49¢ to 47¢. In a Feb. 25 statement announcing this and other rate reductions, Postmaster General Megan Brennan said the Postal Service’s…

In Brief No. 111 February 14, 2016 Subjects: MTAC; New, lower rates; But wait! MTAC January Meeting Attached is the most recent edition of Notes from MTAC, this one authored by Mike DeFlavia.  Thank you, Mike, for the thorough and attentive reporting. A couple highlights: PMG anticipates implementing rate roll-back in mid-April due to cessation…

POSTAL UPDATES Obama 2017 budget plan for U.S. Postal Service likely dead on arrival February 12, 2016 12:40 PM President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2017 federal budget, submitted Feb. 9, addresses the United States Postal Service’s continuing financial challenges. Influential mailing organizations give the president’s plan little chance of passing in Congress. Facebook Tweeter Google +…