It may not be something that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and his COO Megan Brennan are likely to take credit for in public, but the U.S. Postal Service has become very good at closing and consolidating postal facilities. So good, in fact, that when Donahoe announced in June that the Postal Service would begin implementation […]
The U.S. Postal Service filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, yesterday asking it to stay provisions in the Postal Regulatory Commission’s order granting the exigent rate increase. As conditions of its approval, PRC had required that USPS report incremental and cumulative revenue generating from the surcharge 30 days after […]
Three weeks after hitting them with an injurious 6% rate hike, postal decision makers in Washington continue to enrage direct mailers. On January 17 it was Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) , whose re-draft of their Postal Reform Act would make the exigent increase permanent and add an annual 1% to the […]