Category: Press

Are higher mailing rates in store for nonprofit magazines? March 6, 2015 By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent, Linn’s Stamp News When new postal rates are announced, many large mailers realize that their actual prices are going to be determined only after United States Postal Service officials at L’Enfant Plaza in Washington issue new regulations defining…

Will Congress act on Obama plan to rescue USPS?     By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent, Linn’s Stamp News February 24, 2015 After President Obama sent his 2016 budget to the Congress on Feb. 2, Stephen Kearney, executive director of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, asked, “[W]ill anyone take him up on it?” Kearney was referring…

USPS reports ‘controllable income’ profit of $1.1 billion in first quarter By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent, Linn’s Stamp News February 6, 2015 While continuing to report it still operates at a deficit, the United States Postal Service made a major concession to critics who say the government agency is in far better financial shape than…

USPS Will Have To Provide Notice, Rate Estimates By Mark Hrywna – The Nonprofit Times – January 13, 2015 The United States Postal Service (USPS) will have to give 45 days notice before it rolls back a year-old exigent surcharge and provide bi-weekly estimates in the final three months of the temporary 4.3-percent rate. The…

Publishing Executive Postal rates might actually decrease, paper will likely rise D. Eadward Tree’s 2015 Postal & Paper Price Forecast December 2014 By D. Eadward Tree If you are trying to budget key price changes for 2015, forget recent history and put away the economics textbook. The monopolistic U.S. Postal Service will forego its usual…

Tax Policies Top Agenda For Lame Duck Congress By Mark Hrywna – The Nonprofit Times – December 2, 2014 Leaders at national nonprofits are unifying in an attempt to make permanent three charitable provisions in the tax code during the lame duck Congress before a new session begins in January. With Republicans taking control of…

News Postal News 2014 October Former stamp executive returns to providing financial analysis NEWS Former stamp executive returns to providing financial analysis October 31, 2014 03:47 PM Stephen M. Kearney, executive director of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, managed the U.S. stamp program in 2011-12. Facebook Tweeter Google + Get Link For most of his…

Postal Hikes For Nonprofits Could Become Permanent By Mark Hrywna – The Nonprofit Times – February 7, 2014 The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate approved an amended version of the Postal Reform Act of 2013 (S. 1486) that could make recent temporary exigent rate increases permanent, among other provisions that…

Nonprofits To Go To Court In Postal Rate Fight By Patrick Sullivan – The Nonprofit Times –  January 24, 2014 Nonprofit mailers reeling from a 6 percent price increase set to take effect on Sunday won’t go down without a fight. The Direct Marketing Association and the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers have joined with other…

Washington area appointments for Nov. 11, 2013 The Washington Post Associations/nonprofits Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers of the District appointed Stephen M. Kearney executive director.