USPS seeks to raise $2.3bn through higher postal rates
The US Postal Service has asked regulators to allow it an above-inflation postal rate rise this January to recover $2.3bn extra revenues from higher postal rates.
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Congress: Post offices "not the cause" of USPS financial crisis
Members of the US Congress have been expressing concern about the 3,700 post offices now up for possible closure across the United States.
Read MoreEnergy reduction effort saves USPS $400m, but funds are short
The US Postal Service is aiming to be a sustainability leader, and is already laying out good credentials in the hundreds of millions in energy savings being achieved – but its ambitions are limited by the current cash crisis.
Read MoreUSPS reveals retail alternative, with up to 3,653 post offices to close
The US Postal Service revealed a new concept today it believes will prove “very important” as it seeks to streamline its retail network in the face of declining use of the mail – the “village post office”.
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.
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