USPS denied more time to decide on exigent postal rate rise
US regulators have rejected the US Postal Service’s request for a temporary stay on its application to raise postal rates by more than its inflation-based price cap.
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USPS faces $642m shortfall in print media mail services
Newspapers and magazines in the United States have their postage costs subsidised by the US Postal Service to the tune of $642m a year, according to an important new report.
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Read MoreSenator Collins: Mailers should not pay for USPS problems
It is not “reasonable” for mailers to pay above-inflation rate increases to recover shortfalls from “avoidable or structural problems” at the US Postal Service, according to the author of the most recent postal reform legislation in the United States.
Read MoreInflation-based US postal price cap "showing signs of strain"
The inflation-based price cap on US postal rates is “showing signs of strain”, the USPS Office of the Inspector General said yesterday.
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