Mailers Council seeks standard implementation period

The Mailers Council, an Arlington, VA-based coalition of mailers and mailing associations, in late August released a research paper detailing the benefits of a standard implementation period for the U.S. Postal Service to follow when raising rates. The paper calls for a period of at least 90 days, longer in more complicated rate cases. No law or postal regulation currently mandates the minimum number of days between the completion of a rate case and the date that the USPS implements the price hikes, but the implementation period typically has ranged from 30 to 60 days.