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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 +…

  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…