The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approved the Market Dominant price change to take effect January 24, 2021. The prices, approved by the PRC will raise Mailing Services product prices approximately 1.8 percent for First-Class Mail and 1.5 percent for other categories. The Postal Service has some of the lowest letter-mail postage rates in the industrialized […]
11/16/2020 WASHINGTON, DC — The United States Postal Service filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) today of price changes to take effect Jan. 24, 2021. The proposed prices, approved by the Postal Service Governors, would raise Shipping Services product prices approximately 3.5 percent for Priority Mail service, and 1.2 percent for Priority Mail […]
Shipping prices Changes to take effect Jan. 17 1/14/16 Price changes for several shipping products and services will take effect Jan. 17. These changes, which the Postal Service announced last October, include the first price increase for commercial Priority Mail in more than three years. Prices also will change for Priority Mail Express, while customers […]
Domestic and International Mailing — Price Change Final Rule Posted; Effective January 2016 This week, the final rule domestic and international competitive services price change Federal Register Notices for the January 2016 price change were posted on the Federal Register web site. Domestic Competitive Products Pricing and Mailing Standards Changes (Shipping Services) — We provide […]
When United States post offices opened for business Wednesday morning, May 20, all point-of-sale equipment had been reprogrammed to automatically calculate prices on customer purchases at the new postage rates. The problem is, those new rates don’t go into effect until May 31. Many sales rung up at the post office window on Wednesday, however, were […]
The Postal Service Governors have decided to maintain current product and service prices and not seek a market dominant price change at this time. Because the Postal Service has announced price change proposals in September and October for the past three years, mailing industry representatives and others have been waiting to hear whether a price […]
SIIA today expressed significant concern over new data from the U.S. Postal Service revealing a sharp decline in the volume of periodicals mailed in the first quarter of 2014. This is the first quarter following the 4.3 percent exigent rate increase that went into effect this year as part of an overall 5.9 percent rate […]