Achieving Discounts -- New Numbers, Same Advice

Looking ahead, mail owners and their service providers should monitor the state of USPS finances to assess how that will drive changes within postal operations that, in turn, could affect service options and mail preparation rules.

Concurrently, changes in the CPI should be used as indicators of the rate change in 2010; prices for “competitive products,” e.g., Express Mail, Priority Mail and commercial package services, will be adjusted next January, while the other prices will be announced in February 2010 to take effect the following May.