The good news — for mailers, printers, and the U.S. Postal Service — is that flat Standard Mail is being sorted far more efficiently than it was just two years ago.
The bad news is that the trend is prompting postal officials to consider a proposal that would almost certainly lead to higher-than-normal rate increases for efficiently mailed catalogs and other Standard flat mail.
Some postal experts fear the proposal would lead to reduced incentives for co-mailing, which even postal officials admit is the main reason that highly efficient – and profitable – “High Density Flats” volume has grown by 45% in the past two years.
More bad news: Postal officials can’t explain — and don’t seem to be trying very hard to understand — why the Postal Service’s costs of handling most types of Standard flat mail have skyrocketed in the past year. That trend also threatens to cause higher rate increases even for efficient mailers.
I can tell you, even tho the flats come presorted the plant puts them through their sorter and we get them all mixed up. And how many times do we handle the SAME mail? CFS mail at least 3-4 times before it actually gets forwarded and not sent back to us unprocessed. Other return mail nsn, utf, ect. at least 1-2 times. Golly wonder why costs are high??????
Agree…the bundles get broken and sorted to bring up the numbers to justify their jobs…causes more work down the line…