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YIKES! Mailers Will Pay Up To 3% More Plus Inflation With PRC Ruling

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, [...]

PRC CHAIRMAN’S ANNOUNCEMENT ON NEW RATE SETTING SYSTEM

Click for PRC press release. Below is the transcript of the announcement from Chairman Taub on December 1, 2017: Good afternoon everyone good afternoon everyone, I am Robert [...]

BREAKING: PRC Announces New Postage Rate Setting System

The Postal Regulatory Commission issued its proposed final decision on the current system for regulating postage rates and classes for First-Class Mail, Standard Mail, and [...]

UPDATE: PRC OK’s Postage Rate Hike

The Postal Regulatory Commission approved USPS rate hikes for competitive products as well as updates to the Mail Classification Schedule … (click to read more) The PRC [...]

PRC Postage Rate System Decision Soon

WASHINGTON, DC — Leaves will start falling in Fall, but postage rates could start rising. Fall begins September 22 and so does the countdown for the critical decision [...]

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 [...]

Good-Bye Rate Cap? Reading The PRC Tea Leaves

Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Robert Taub’s luncheon presentation at MAILCOM ’17 was probably the most anticipated session of the conference. The PRC is [...]

PRC Says Financial Concerns Persist For USPS

Are USPS finances getting better? That is the contention of mailers who want to keep the current inflation-based price cap on rate increases. The USPS says its finances are [...]

BATTLELINES: Who Is For & Against Postage Rate Cap

The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers summarizes the organizations that agree with it that the postage rate hike cap should remain and those who don’t think so … [...]

Bankers: Keep Postage Rate Cap

The American Bankers Association urged the PRC to keep the CPI price cap on postage rate hikes, stating the current system is working well … (click to read [...]

Postal Union: End Postage Rate Cap

The American Postal Workers Union is against the current inflation-based price cap on postage rate hikes, it stated in a filing with the Postal Regulatory Commission … [...]

USPS: No Price Cap; PRC “After The Fact” Monitoring

The USPS filed comments with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), an alternative pricing system that does not include a price cap. Instead, the PRC would be responsible [...]

PRC Issues 2016 Postal Compliance Report

The Postal Regulatory Commission issued its 2016 Annual Compliance Determination Report, a fulfilling the Commission’s responsibility to produce an annual assessment of [...]

Deadline To Comment To PRC On Postage Rates is March 20

Business mailers who want to comment on postage rates and the current system for setting them must submit their comments to the Postal Regulatory Commission by March 20. The [...]

PRC FAST TRACKS RATE REVIEW

Denies Mailer Groups Procedure Changes The Postal Regulatory Commission ruled against mail industry groups seeking to change the procedures of the PRC’s rate review, a [...]

First Shots Fired In PRC Review Of Postage Rates & Mail Classes

Two trade groups have filed requests with the Postal Regulatory Commission regarding the PRC’s current review of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA). [...]

PRC Chairman Keynote At MAILCOM ’17

Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Robert Taub will deliver a keynote presentation at MAILCOM ’17. The current rate and regulation system is under review by the PRC [...]

PRC Issues 2016 Annual Report

The Postal Regulatory Commission released its Annual Report to the President and Congress providing an account of the activities undertaken by the Commission during 2016 [...]

Mailer Input Wanted As PRC Begins Review Of Postal Ratemaking

On December 20, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) announced that it will begin its review of the system for regulating rates and classes for Market Dominant products [...]

PRC Approves 2017 Mailing Fees And Special Service Rates

On Thursday, December 15, 2016, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) issued its order in the USPS Special Service Price filing from October 12, 2016. In the order, the PRC [...]