Category: Press

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…

By Mark Hrywna – April 17, 2015 A postage rate increase that’s expected to whack nonprofits that mail periodicals especially hard isn’t likely to change much, other than a new effective date later this year. The United States Postal Service (USPS) on Thursday filed its response to the Postal Regulatory Commission’s (PRC) order from last…

The Nonprofit Times Postal Service Delays Rate Hike By Patrick Sullivan – March 31, 2015 Nonprofit mailers have gotten a reprieve from potentially ruinous rate increases for periodicals. The U.S. Postal Service would have implemented new rates on April 26, but the Postal Regulatory Commission remanded—sent back—some of the increase requests for a second time.…

TheNonprofitTimes By Stephen Kearney – March 24, 2015 It is a well-known fact within the nonprofit community that many, if not all, nonprofits depend on the United States Postal Service (USPS) for their very existence. For many, the mail is the lifeblood that funds the critical missions that nonprofits pursue. While other segments of our…

NEWS AND ANALYSIS MARCH 23, 2015 Nonprofit Mailers Scramble, Again, to Fight Postal-Rate Increases By Holly Hall Charity mailers are continuing their campaign to stave off big postage increases for many nonprofit periodicals following an unprecedented development that makes it impossible for the Postal Service to implement new rates by April 26 as scheduled. The…

ELSEWHERE ONLINE MARCH 19, 2015 Postal Panel Wants Review of Rate Hike Blasted by Nonprofits For the second time in less than two weeks, the Postal Regulatory Commission has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to review a planned rate increase on periodical mailings that has angered nonprofit magazine publishers, reports Postalnews.com, an industry news site.…