Don’t Take This Year’s Postal Increase Lightly

An Annual Event
Beginning with this May’s increase under the new postal law, catalogers should plan on annual postal rate hikes that theoretically will be considerably less than those that took place in 1989, 1995 and 2007, among other noteworthy increases. “While the overall increase will be capped at CPI each year,” Siviter says, “that doesn’t mean your company’s experience will be a CPI-capped increase.” The USPS has greater freedom now to provide discounts for the types of mail that cost it the least to process and deliver. It also has more freedom to increase rates for those types of pieces that are more costly for it to process and deliver, she points out.