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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…

By Eric Katz September 1, 2015 Kathy Willens/AP file photo Share this on Facebook37 Tweet this on Twitter6 Share this on Google Plus5 Share this on LinkedIn3 Print this article Email this article Increase size The U.S. Postal Service has filed yet another petition against the mandate that it end emergency price hikes, once again…

Link to article Federal Eye Post Office can’t even meet its own lower standards as late mail soars By Lisa Rein August 26, 2015 Amid a significant downsizing of the money-strapped U.S. Postal Service, the number of letters arriving late has jumped by almost 50 percent since the start of the year. And that’s as…

Federal Eye By Lisa Rein July 30 at 6:57 PM The 49-cent stamp has eight more months of life until the U.S. Postal Service has to roll the price back, the effect of a ruling that allows the post office to collect $1.1 billion to cover its recession-related losses. Wednesday’s ruling by postal regulators should…

By Eric Katz July 30, 2015 4 Comments RELATED Postal Service Cannot Keep Emergency Price Hike Forever, Court Rules June 5, 2015 10Comments USPS Suspends Remaining Facility Closures Scheduled for 2015 May 26, 2015 9Comments How Reality-Altering Glasses Could Save the Postal Service Millions April 6, 2015 19Comments Postal Groups’ New Lethal Weapon? Danny Glover…

July 30, 2015 08:21 AM By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent The cash-hungry United States Postal Service has won what is described as an eight-month extension on its current stamp prices. That is the effect of a July 29 ruling by the Postal Regulatory Commission, which held that the USPS is entitled to an additional $1.191…