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

By Jerry Cerasale

In the meantime, work with your suppliers to ensure you have clean, up-to-date mailing lists. Also, test new mail shapes and work with your printers to obtain the highest level of mail presortation possible. Those efforts will be rewarded no matter what future postage rates will bring. The DMA will be fighting to prevent huge rate swings — that’s why we fought 12 years for postal reform that included a CPI cap.