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  Postal Rates Set To Drop By The NonProfit Times – February 8, 2016 The United States Postal Service (USPS) released adjusted rates on Friday, highlighted by a decrease from 49 cents to 47 cents for first-class mail stamps, to kick in once a temporary exigent surcharge on postage runs out. Absent congressional or court…

POSTAL UPDATES  End to emergency rate increase could drop first-class stamp to 47¢ February 05, 2016 03:26 PM On Feb. 5, the Postal Service made public how it would cut stamp prices if Congress and the courts continue to reject its plea to retain all of the emergency rate increases that were approved in December…

      Direct Marketing News> Channels> Postal> Mailers Rise Up Against iPOST Al Urbanski, Senior Editor February 04, 2016 Mailers Rise Up Against iPOST Share this article: facebook twitter linkedin google 0 Email Print Thirty-two organizations—from RR Donnelley to Disabled American Veterans—unite in opposition to the first Congressionally mandated postal increase in 40 years.…

    Historic postage reduction should be coming soon But nonprofits believe they haven’t ‘won’ much By STEPHEN M. KEARNEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALLIANCE OF NONPROFIT MAILERS | 01/21/2016 SHARE| Not since the July 1, 1885 two-cent postage reduction, and the July 1, 1919 removal of the World War I one-cent “exigent” surcharge, have we seen…

Deja vu in the D.C. Circuit: Why is the Postal Service bothering? ‘Most observers have believed for some time that the Postal Service’s case is weak, if not frivolous.’ By STEPHEN M. KEARNEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALLIANCE OF NONPROFIT MAILERS | 01/07/2016 SHARE| Readers of the brief that the U.S. Postal Service filed in the exigency…

FRNP Newsletter from Errol Copilevitz   A Monthly Review of Legal Issues NOVEMBER 2015   Federal CONGRESS. Texas republican Kevin Brady will be filling the vacancy created when Representative Paul Ryan was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.  Mr. Brady will serve as Chairman of the House, Ways and Means Committee, which is a…

By Andy Segedin – November 19, 2015 Click to read article The United States Postal Service’s (USPS) leadership has publicly committed to having no general price increases for letter and flat mail in 2016. An overall price decrease for such mailings is possible for later in the year. The news follows an announcement earlier this…

Link to page Reprinted with permission from the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers Recently, a group of USPS® customers got together and agreed on a “top ten” list of pricing suggestions for the Postal Service™. The list was given to the Chief Marketing and Sales Officer Jim Cochrane. We really believe that following these suggestions is…

NEWS USPS Priority Mail prices to jump almost 10 percent in January 2016 October 19, 2015 12:22 PM The United States Postal Service announced Oct. 16 that it plans to boost prices for its Priority Mail services by 9.8 percent in mid-January 2016. The Postal Regulatory Commission must approve the proposed increases before they can…

U.S. Postal Service board of governors could shrink to one member by December NEWS September 03, 2015 08:33 PM By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the only 2016 presidential candidate to address postal issues in his campaign, has been acting without public attention on another important postal issue. The Vermont senator single…