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Excpect a 4.2 percent increase in 2023 USPS postage rates
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Be Prepared: Postal Increases on the Horizon

November 11, 2022
Excpect a 4.2 percent increase in 2023 USPS postage rates
It’s time to prepare for impacts on your 2023 postage budgets.

The USPS has requested a postage rate increase across all mail classes of approximately 4.2%. This is the maximum increase allowed by regulation and is derived from the Consumer Price Index which measures price changes over time of consumer products such as utilities, automotive fuel, and food items. These increases are substantial and come on the heels of the July 2022 mid-year increase. 

Planning now will help you keep your mailings on schedule and your budget in check. 

The USPS has also recently announced several ways for mailers to realize significant savings and obtain enhanced services such as:
  • The Tactile, Sensory, and Interactive Engagement promotion (February 1 – July 31) will provide up to a 5% postage discount for the use of innovative print techniques using certain inks, substrates, or finishes.
  • Returning next year is the popular Informed Delivery promotion (August 1 – December 31) that will again offer up to a 4% discount on postage when an Informed Delivery campaign is set up.

We’ll keep you up to date when the full USPS promotion calendar and details are confirmed.

As always, MailSmart Logistics is here to help you get the absolute best rates possible by utilizing USPS promotions, commingling, and/or drop shipping. We analyze every mailing for our clients to determine the most cost-effective delivery strategy to help you meet your delivery and budget goals.

Please let us know if we can answer any questions or assist in any way.

 

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Maximize Postal Savings to Ensure Competitive Bids

August 31, 2015

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Are more clients asking you to submit a competitive bid for a job before they choose who to award it to? Requesting competitive bids is one technique companies use to stretch their tight direct mail dollars.

The challenge with competitive bidding is to price your job low enough to get the job while still maintaining an acceptable profit margin. To achieve this balancing act, it’s important to take full advantage of the savings available to you through postal logistics. Otherwise, you risk losing bids to competitors who do.

As you know, the USPS charges substantially less postage for mail that enters the postal stream close to its ultimate destination. Even if your mailing is relatively small, you can team up with a commingling company to deliver your mail to the Network Distribution Centers (NDCs) and Sectional Center Facilities (SCFs) that maximize your postal savings. Commingling also eliminates the labor costs associated with sorting, sleeving, traying and strapping your mail.

Best of all, MailSmart Logistics locks in one commingling price for all your mailings between now and the next postage increase, dramatically simplifying your bid development process.

MailSmart Logistics provides worry-free shipping at remarkably-low postal rates–
You’re going to love working with MailSmart Logistics!

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Lock in Your Postal Savings for the Year

April 20, 2015

Lock in your postal savings

Isn’t your day busy enough without the necessity of negotiating a new commingling rate for every mailing?

MailSmart Logistics uses its buying power from commingling 270 million pieces of mail a year to negotiate the lowest-possible commingling rates for our customers. Based upon your expected mail volume, we’ll lock in one postage rate good for all your commingled mail between now and the next USPS increase and seal our agreement with a handshake.

It’s as simple as that. So if something unexpected happens, such as the mailing not being completely ready at the planned time, don’t worry. We don’t charge extra for small jobs, additional pickups, or anything else for that matter. Our price covers it all. Oh, and we provide free tracking services for all of our clients with our customized MailTracker system!

You choose how much or how little of each mailing you want MailSmart Logistics to handle. We can pick up the entire mailing and drop ship it as required. Alternatively, if you have trusted trucking firms you want to continue to work with, we’ll manage just the commingled component of your mailings.

Knowing your commingling rate helps in other ways too. When you’re developing a bid for a new mailing, simply send us the file and our analysts will tell you the combination of commingling and drop shipping that provides you with the most economical postage costs. If you prefer to analyze the mailing yourself, you can finalize a competitive bid quickly because you already know what rate to plug in for the commingled portion of the mailing.

MailSmart Logistics provides worry-free shipping at remarkably-low postal rates –
You’re going to love working with MailSmart Logistics!

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