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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…

Federal Eye USPS can’t keep rate increase forever, court rules By Lisa Rein June 6, 2015 REUTERS/Mike Blake/Files The U.S. Postal Service will have to roll back a portion of its largest rate increase in 11 years after a federal court ruled that the higher postage prices in place since January 2014 can’t be permanent.…

  Postal Service Cannot Keep Emergency Price Hike Forever, Court Rules By Eric Katz June 5, 2015 5 Comments RELATED USPS Suspends Remaining Facility Closures Scheduled for 2015 May 26, 2015 9Comments Congress Once Again Tries to Save the Postal Service May 5, 2015 32Comments How Reality-Altering Glasses Could Save the Postal Service Millions April…

ARTICLE JUNE 01, 2015 Consumer Reports Drops 2 Publications After Mailing Costs Increase By Holly Hall Consumer Reports will soon stop publishing two of its four publications, largely because postage increases that took effect Monday have made the print versions unaffordable to mail, officials said. ShopSmart magazine and the Money Adviser newsletter, which Consumer Reports…

May 8, 2015 By Holly Hall The Postal Regulatory Commission approved higher nonprofit postage rates Thursday that charity magazine publishers say will impose onerous new financial burdens. The new rates take effect May 31. Charities that send out letters and small pieces such as postcards, a category known as nonprofit standard mail, will pay about…

By STEPHEN M. KEARNEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALLIANCE OF NONPROFIT MAILERS | 04/30/2015 MORE SHARING SERVICESSHARE|SHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON MYSPACESHARE ON GOOGLESHARE ON TWITTER Several upcoming promotions present opportunities for nonprofit mailers to try out new applications of postal mail and earn discounts on their postage. The Postal Service has a web page dedicated to its…