{"id":13690,"date":"2023-04-12T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:01:35","slug":"usps-files-july-rate-increases-postal-regulatory-commission-releases-flats-processing-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/usps-files-july-rate-increases-postal-regulatory-commission-releases-flats-processing-study\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Files July Rate Increases &#038; Postal Regulatory Commission Releases Flats Processing Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Postal Service filed notice on April 10 of increased rates with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), which take effect July 9. The average rate increases are:<\/p>\n<p>Periodicals Outside County: 8.080 percent<br \/>\nPeriodicals Within County: 8.811 percent<br \/>\nMarketing Mail HD-Saturation Flats\/Parcels: 3.071 percent<\/p>\n<p>Rate comparison charts are<span style=\"color: #0082c0;\"> <a style=\"color: #0082c0;\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NMA-Jul-2023-Rate-Comparison.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">attached<\/span><\/a><\/span>. The PRC will review the changes before they are scheduled to take effect. The Alliance will provide comments.<\/p>\n<p>The PRC released the Flats Operations Study Report April 6, as required by Section 206 of the Postal Service Reform Act. The study identifies causes of inefficiencies in the collection, sorting, transportation, and delivery of flats. The PSRA also requires the Postal Service, within 6 months, either to develop and implement a plan to remedy each inefficiency identified or to provide an explanation as to why remedying the inefficiency is impracticable. The Alliance provided comments in January. The USPS Office of Inspector General plans to issue their study in June.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Postal Service filed notice on April 10 of increased rates with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), which take effect July 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,327],"tags":[716],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-postal-rates-a","tag-tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}