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Is the Price Right?
Posted by RARC Host da | Filed under Pricing & Rates
The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA) ushered in a new regulatory structure for the U.S. Postal Service. One key element was a price cap on market dominant products. (Most of the Postal Service’s products are market dominant.) This means that price increases for market dominant products are capped by the rate of [...]
Tags: Consumer Price Index, exigent rate, Finances, financial crisis, first class, PAEA, Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, Postal Regulatory Commission, postal service, price increase, revenue, stamps
Stamp Vending Machines
Posted by RARC ha | Filed under Products & Services
For decades, the Postal Service offered vending machine service to supplement its retail operations. Vending machines meet the needs of customers who want to purchase stamps without waiting in line.
While the lack of stamp vending machines has resulted in customer frustration and a surprising number of newspaper articles, the problems are particularly acute in [...]
Tags: APC, automated postal center, first class, mailing kiosk, Mailing Services, postal service, Retail, sales, stamps, vending machine
Reducing the Number of Prices
Posted by Capital Investments | Filed under Pricing & Rates
The Postal Service has more than 10,000 prices contained in a 1,800-page customer manual known as the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM). The DMM provides individual and commercial mailers with information about postal services and standards for both domestic and international mailings. The Price List, also known as Notice 123, contains domestic and international retail and [...]
Tags: commercial prices, DMM, Domestic Mail Manual, first class, mailer, Mailing Services, Notice 123, postal service, prices, services
Mail Volume: What Goes Up…?
Posted by Blog Editor | Filed under Cost, Revenue, and Rates, Processing
In 1970, the Postal Service delivered fewer than 85 billion pieces of mail. Thirty years later, mail volume had more than doubled to nearly 208 billion pieces of mail — average growth of about 3 percent per year. The Postal Service relied upon this dependable growth in mail volume to finance the expansion of its [...]
Tags: first class, standard, volume
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