The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, along with the Association for Postal Commerce, petitioned the Postal Regulatory Commission last month to reconsider the USPS' rate increase leeway. The Postal Service will likely seek another price increase of 3% to 5% in January, but Kearney's organization opposes the current and future ones. Postmaster General DeJoy has said they are needed.
Now, she's behind bars.Įarlier this year, USPS raised rates on Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express by 2.7% (rates starting at $7.37, up from $7.16) and 4.3% (starting at $23.50, previously $22.75). Good Samaritans: Video shows strangers saving Florida woman who had a medical episode while drivingĬold case: She told police 26 years ago a Black man killed her boyfriend. Retired postal employees now are required to enroll in Medicare. That comes primarily from ending the requirement of the USPS paying into a health benefit fund for current and retired employees for 75 years into the future. In addition to ensuring six-day-a-week mail delivery, the new law is expected to save the agency an estimated $50 billion over the next decade, DeJoy said.
The USPS proposed the rate increase a month ago, on April 6, the same day President Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, legislation meant to bolster the agency, which has faced financial challenges as well as stiff competition from shippers such FedEx and UPS. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said May 5 he expected the Postal Service to continue to raise prices "at an uncomfortable rate" until the agency becomes self-sufficient. And that may not be the only price hike in the near future. Postal Service is expected to increase prices in July, raising the cost of a Forever stamp from 58 cents to 60 cents.
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