{"id":14522,"date":"2016-03-30T07:52:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14522"},"modified":"2016-03-30T07:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:52:24","slug":"npmhu-prc-affirms-that-usps-exigent-surcharge-pricing-to-end-april-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/03\/30\/npmhu-prc-affirms-that-usps-exigent-surcharge-pricing-to-end-april-10\/","title":{"rendered":"NPMHU: PRC Affirms That USPS Exigent Surcharge Pricing to End April 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPMHU &#8211; 3\/29\/16 &#8211; By Order dated March 29, 2016, the Postal Regulatory Commission has approved new postal rates and product descriptions reflecting removal of the exigent surcharge of approximately 4.3%.\u00a0 The PRC noted that this is the culmination of several Commission orders spanning nearly six years and several Commission dockets.\u00a0 In brief, in 2013, the Postal Service requested \u2014 and the Commission approved \u2014 an exigent rate increase to offset the losses associated with the Great Recession of 2008\u20132009.\u00a0 The Commission approved the increase in the form of a temporary surcharge that would be removed once the loss associated with the Great Recession was recovered.\u00a0 Subsequent proceedings and court appeals resulted in a longer period for using these higher, exigent rates, but the exigency period, according to prior Commission orders and court findings, has now come to its end.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the 4.3 percent exigent surcharge being reversed allowed the Postal Service to collect surcharges totaling $4.6 billion; that amount is expected to be reached next month, by April 10, 2016, explaining why the rate change will take effect then.\u00a0 For example, termination of the exigent surcharge will reduce the cost of mailing a 1-ounce first-class letter from 49 cents to 47 cents, and will cost the USPS approximately $2 billion annually.\u00a0 The impact of this action on the finances of the Postal Service will be felt for years to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npmhu.org\/media\/news\/body\/PRC3186.pdf\">Follow this link to read PRC Order No. 3186<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(pdf)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>102 pages<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13103\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"npmhu1-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPMHU &#8211; 3\/29\/16 &#8211; By Order dated March 29, 2016, the Postal Regulatory Commission has approved new postal rates and product descriptions reflecting removal of the exigent surcharge of approximately 4.3%.\u00a0 The PRC noted that this is the culmination of several Commission orders spanning nearly six years and several Commission dockets.\u00a0 In brief, in 2013, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14523,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions\/14523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}