U.S.mailers' group (including magazines) swell their ranks for the rate fight

The Affordable Mail Alliance, a coalition of U.S. mailers banding together to fight major postal rate hikes now has 1,000 members. According to a post by Audience Development, that includes about 75 individual magazine publishers plus the Magazine Publishers Association and American Business Media. "It's an unprecedented coalition of the entire mailing industry,"  James Cregan, MPA's executive

US Postal Service announces no increase in magazine mailing rates

This seems a day for postal news. U.S. Postmaster General John E. Potter has sent a letter to customers officially announcing there will be no rate hike for "market dominant products." Magazine publishers had been expecting a 2 to 3 percent increase in May and some had even speculated about 10 percent. "We want to end all speculation," said Potter who, on Wednesday, told a conference in New York

"Completely unjustified" magazine mailing costs to increase 3% next January

Canada Post is going to raise Publications Mail rates 3% on January 1, 2010, a hike that Magazines Canada says is "completely unjustified". The magazine association has said in a bulletin to its members:While CPC expressed its sensitivity to the economic downturn and understands the need to attenuate rate increases while the economy recovers, a weighted rate increase of close to three per cent

Cost of mailing a magazine up 38% in 6 years

The cost of mailing the average magazine in Canada has increased 38% in six years, according to the annual analysis and report for the year 2008, prepared for Rogers Publishing by Michael J. Fox, the senior vice-president, circulation and development. Fox, who is acknowledged to be one of Canada's leading experts on postal matters, prepares his analysis every year after Canada Post Corporation

Size matters -- too much -- in U.S. postal rates, say smaller magazines

The impending restructuring of postal rates in the U.S. is predicted to have major, damaging effects on mid-size and smaller titles. A deal cooked up between Time Warner and some of the other big players with the United States Postal Service (USPS) , giving large-circulation titles a break for volume and doing most of the post office's sorting for them.Titles that, while big by Canadian