The USPS has filed notice that international mail rates will jump in 2021 as follows: Global Express Guaranteed – 0.9% Priority Mail Express International – 3.6% [...]
Steven Phelps, Manager of Regulatory Reporting and Cost Analysis made the following presentation about the upcoming postage rates hikes … (click to read [...]
WASHINGTON, DC — United States Postal Service postage rates and fees increase effective January 24, 2021. Here are the new rates and postage forms: Click for 2021 USPS [...]
Sharon Owens, USPS Vice President Pricing and Costing, outlined coming changes in mail classifications and postage rates at the AIM meeting in February … (click to see [...]
Top postal officials want to keep raising prices to solve financial problems, but the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers argues price hikes could accelerate volume declines [...]
Pitney Bowes Inc. noted that the recent rate increases by FedEx and UPS and the pending January 27 rate increase for the U.S. Postal Service will prompt U.S. businesses to [...]
WASHINGTON, DC — Business mailers are generally relieved with the USPS 2019 rate hike announcement. First-Class Mail and Standard Mail bulk rates will rise modestly on [...]
With Inflation Currently Near 3%, Mailers Face A Potential 2019 Rate Hike of 6% Under New PRC Plan WASHINGTON, DC — As the industry awaits the Presidential Task Force [...]
The U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on May 25, 2018 upheld the Postal Regulatory Commission’s method for setting postage rates on competitive products [...]
The USPS has released the presentation, “Structural Changes Under Consideration for the Next Price Change,” given by Steven R. Phelps, Manager, Regulatory [...]
The New Year brings many postal rate and regulation changes for business mailers. Here are links to the key changes in January 2018: New Postage Rates Effective January 21, [...]
The Postal Regulatory Commission released its proposed changes for how the U.S. Postal Service sets postage rates for its primary mail classes — First-Class Mail, [...]
The Postal Regulatory Commission found that the current rate-setting system has not been effective, but not so bad as to remove the inflation price cap on any First-Class, [...]
On October 6, 2017, the Postal Service filed a notice of inflation-based rate adjustments affecting market dominant domestic and international products and services, along [...]
By Gordon Glazer, CMDSM, CMDSS, MDP, MDC Senior Parcel Consultant, USPS Specialist Shipware LLC Contact: gordon@shipware.com The USPS today announced new prices for 2018 to [...]
Postage rates need to increase by 20% — meaning a 60 cent First-Class stamp — if the USPS is to be saved from financial ruin, a study commissioned by the [...]
Exigent Ghost Haunts Mailers As USPS Presses Congress; PRC Ruling Soon WASHINGTON, DC – Business mailers celebrated the historic rate cut last year as emergency postage [...]
A war of words has erupted between the USPS and some mailer group executives over the PRC’s ratesetting review. ‘We cannot let false and irresponsible claims made [...]