DMANF Calls for Delay in Postage Rate Changes

Currently, the new rates are expected to take effect in early May. In its comments, the DMANF urged the Postal Service to delay implementation of the rule for one year to allow nonprofit mailers a chance to test the new specifications in the rule.

“To raise postal rates for these flat size front-end premium packages as much as postal management proposes without any time to plan and test would be detrimental to the Postal Service as it attempts to increase mail volumes and revenue,” said Boone. “It would be devastating for many nonprofit organizations, and ultimately to the beneficiaries of nonprofits’ good works who will bear the price of insufficient planning.”