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No Rise From Last Year Expected for Fall Mailing Season

Posted by | Sep 11, 2001 | |

“with the fall holiday mailing season in full swing, it’s clear in the mailing community that last autumn’s flurry of direct mail activity may not happen this year. More catalogers and direct mailers are cutting their circulation this fall. For example, Lillian Vernon Corp. said that September circulation will be down 5 percent from last year. Other companies may send about the same amount of fall mail as they did last year. The U.S. Postal Service is anticipating the same volume as last year, and major printer R.R. Donnelly said it is seeing the same volume at its plants as last fall.”

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The Governors of the United States Postal Service have authorized the immediate filing of a request for new higher postal rates.

Posted by | Sep 11, 2001 | |

Overall the USPS will be requesting an 8.7 % increase. For First Class mail, the USPS will be asking for a 3 cent increase on the price of a First Class stamp, which equates to an average 8.2 % increase. For Standard Mail, the increase would be 7.3%, for Packages, 9%, for Periodicals, 10.0%, for Priority Mail, 13.5%, and for Express Mail, 9.7%. Details on the many rate cells associated with this filing won’t be ready until later this month. (figures from postcom.org)

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