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National Postal Policy Council. Celebrating our 25 th Year. Mission Statement. NPPC promotes a continued and improved national postal system with quality service at an affordable price.
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Mission Statement • NPPC promotes a continued and improved national postal system with quality service at an affordable price. • NPPC views its mission as maintaining a trusted partnership with the USPS for the benefit of all Americans. This partnership between the USPS and NPPC seeks to drive continuous improvement. • NPPC focuses primarily on its area of most expertise, First Class Mail, viewed as part of a healthy overall system. • NPPC believes that a key element for the members' business success for the foreseeable future is a healthy national postal system. • NPPC will continue to pursue its traditional mission of partnership and its operational focus. As to competitive or "non-traditional" new initiatives, individual member companies will take positions and actions appropriate to their business interests.
2005 Estimated Mail Volume • 20 Billion Pieces • $6 Billion in Postal Revenues
Circle the Earth 109 times!!! Earth to Moon & back 6 times!!! If you placed all the mail pieces sent out last year by NPPC mailers...end to end…
NPPC Approach to MTAC • A forum for addressing the system-wide and specific needs of first class mailers • Work in a cooperative environment with other members and USPS • Participate in the organized structure of committees, workgroups and plenary sessions
NPPC-Supported MTAC Outcomes • USPS to notify customers of future pending service standard changes • USPS to publish EXFC scores on the web for public viewing • Specifications document for a Business Mail Measurement System
Current NPPC MTAC Goals • Progress in Workgroup 94 toward standardizing reporting for performance measurement • Meeting the USPS goal of reducing UAA mail by 50% • Working with other first-class mailers toward surface visibility to track containers through postal system • Developing through Workgroup 100 -- seamless acceptance for MLOCR environment
Communicating About MTAC • Regular reports from our MTAC Rep at Quarterly Meetings • Forwarding materials and/or links to members • Specific reports on topical issues to membership as a whole
20.6% NPPC Members Source: USPS Strategic Transformation Plan
NPPC Recent Studies • Impacts of Substantial Rate Increases • Predictable – depress volumes • Decreases substantially deepen and accelerate with alternatives to postal system, such as online bill payment and presentment • First class rates with and without postal reform • With reform – either bill – 10-year savings for large individual, business mailers in the $100 of millions • Smaller mailers: proportionately
Three Cases for Rate Increases Case 1: 10% inflation increase plus dynamic funding and 10-year mortgage less current payment Case 2: 10% inflation increase plus dynamic funding and escrow mortgage less current payment Case 3: 10% inflation increase plus dynamic funding and 40-year mortgage less current payment Data - January, 2005