OUCH! Most Shippers Will See 5% Hike In Postage Rates In 2018
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
20% Postage Rate Hike Needed, Study Says
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 [...]
Three Reasons Non-Profit Mailers Are Not Happy
The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers reports three reasons nonprofit mailers are not happy with the current direction of the USPS … (click to read [...]
Postage Rates May Soar 5-10% Next 12 Months
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 [...]
RATE WAR: USPS, Mailer Groups Fight Over Rate Cap
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 [...]
How Other Nation’s Price Mail
The USPS Office of Inspector General found that in five countries price regulation has recently become more flexible in two ways – through a reduction of scope of products [...]
USPS Mailing Standards Effective January 22, 2017
The Final Rule for the USPS Mailing Standards has been filed by the USPS, following Postal Regulatory Commission’s ruling in November … (click for new mailing [...]
Revised Postage Statements For January Rate Hike
PS 3600 First Class Mail Nonautomation PS 3600 First Class Mail Automation PS 3600 Priority Mail PS 3602 Marketing [...]
LUCKY MAILERS: Some Postage Rates Decline In 2017
Not every rate class is going up in the proposed postage rate hikes for January 22, 2017. From First Class metered mail to Standard (Marketing) Mail to Nonprofit letters, [...]