Plan for a CPI-based rate increase around 3 percent next spring, Part 2 of 2

By Jerry Cerasale

At that time, we’ll also argue that the rates should reflect the lower processing costs for flat-shaped mail that will come with the new flats sequence sortation (FSS) system. (Ironically, in the week that the Postal Regulatory Commission announced those huge postal rate increases for flats, the USPS awarded a contract of more than $800 million for FSS machines.)