National Postal Policy CouncilNational Postal Policy Council
Celebrating our 25th Year
• 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.
Mission Statement
2005 Estimated Mail Volume
•20 Billion Pieces
•$6 Billion in Postal Revenues
Circle the Earth 109 times!!!
If you placed all the mail pieces sent out last year by NPPC mailers...end to end…
Earth to Moon & back 6 times!!!
• 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 Approach to MTAC
• 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
NPPC-Supported MTAC Outcomes
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
• 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
Communicating About MTAC
Source: USPS Strategic Transformation Plan
NPPC Members
• Impacts of Substantial Rate Increases
• Predictability – 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
NPPC Recent Studies
Three Cases for Rate Increases
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14.7% 12.7%7.8%
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25%
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Inflation Dynamic Funding & Mortgage
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
Credit Card Industry
(2,868)
(2,067)
(1,474)
-3,000
-2,000
-1,000
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