Inflation, which has reached levels not seen in decades, is dominating the news. Consumers are increasingly skittish as gas prices continue to rise and related news stories proliferate. On July 10 mail prices will increase by an average of 6.5 percent. Increases for some mail products and services will be considerably...
The United States Postal Service has released numbers on the amount of postal workers bitten by dogs each year while honoring “National Dog Bite Awareness Week.” The 2022 week of awareness runs from June 5- June 11, and even has a theme, “The USPS Delivers for America — Deliver for Us...
The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers (ANM) has filed a request that the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) direct the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to report delivery service performance for Nonprofit Marketing Mail separately from commercial mail. And, when it comes to Nonprofit Marketing Mail, it was requested that regular mail be...
After the massive mail slowdowns and postage hikes of 2021, Congress took action to financially stabilize the U.S. Postal Service by passing a historic, bipartisan postal reform bill. The bill freed the Postal Service from an unreasonable 2006 law demanding that it pre-fund retiree health benefits 75 years in advance—a...
A California screen printer is suing the U.S. Postal Service for seizing shipments of Black Lives Matter masks intended to protect demonstrators from Covid-19 during protests following the May 2020 murder of George Floyd. The cloth masks, with slogans like "Stop killing Black people" and "Defund police," were purchased by the...