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In an order issued July 2, the Postal Regulatory Commission opened a rulemaking to evaluate the Postal Service’s service performance measurement system. As is reported regularly in Mailers Hub News, the current system does not measure service on a significant portion of the mailstream. In PQII/FY2024 (January-March), for example, only 63.81% of First-Class Mail (all commercial rate), 72.37% of Marketing…
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If Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is displeased by observations about his 10-Year Plan that are not complimentary, he surely will be piqued by an audit report released June 21 by the Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General. In the report, State of the US Postal Service Financial Condition, the OIG sought “to evaluate the financial performance of the Postal Service…
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Privacy laws will be the topic of our next Mailers Hub webinar, at 1 pm ET on July 9. Our speakers will discuss the latest developments and answer your questions. To register, go to mailershub.com/events. Registration is FREE for all – share this link with any of those you feel can benefit from attending. Any article on the landscape of…
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Speaking June 3 at the opening general session of the 2024 National Postal Forum, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy took a different approach in his usual rant about what was wrong when he arrived to lead the Postal Service in June 2020. Rather than simply decrying his predecessors’ lack of a plan, he reviewed the operational and ratemaking fundamentals in place…
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For someone who rejects outside involvement in how he conducts business, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has, through his policies and attitudes, managed to attract the very kind of external oversight he dislikes. Another letter The latest example is a May 23 letter to the Postal Regulatory Commission from four members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability: Jamie Raskin…
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To no-one’s surprise, the Postal Regulatory Commission approved the Postal Service’s April 9 request to raise prices on its market-dominant classes of mail. In its May 30 decision, the PRC stated The Commission concludes that the planned price adjustments are consistent with the regulations of 39 CFR part 3030 and applicable Commission directives and orders. The planned price adjustments are…
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After years of compliant support for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-Year Plan, the growing outcry over decreasing service performance seems to have inspired a member of the Postal Service’s Board of Governors to offer a different opinion. Outsiders will never know whether that was a bold departure from the usual stilted consonance or a scripted preface to later events, but…
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Earlier today, the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers filed comments with the Postal Regulatory Commission urging that the Postal Service’s April 9 price filing be rejected. In a statement issued shortly after, the Alliance explained its action: May 6, 2024
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On Tuesday, April 9, 2024, the USPS filed its Notice of Market-Dominant Price Change with the PRC. As predicted in the March 25 issue of Mailers Hub News (login required), the Postal Service is seeking the maximum possible increase the rate authority will allow. As stated in the filing, “The Postal Service has available approximately 7.8 percentage points of pricing…
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As Postmaster General Louis DeJoy presses on with his Plan to transform the Postal Service’s collection, processing, transportation, and delivery networks, an audit of the first regional processing and distribution center opened under his Plan found a wide variety of problems. The OIG summarized the transition of operations into the new RPDC: “In July 2023, the Postal Service completed the…
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