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Member Exclusive: ACMA’s Washington Newsletter, September 29, 2023
Welcome to the new edition of ACMA’s newsletter focused on Washington, D.C. goings-on that affect your business. As always, we welcome any member comments, criticism, requests for improvement, etc., by simply responding to this email. Executive Summary In Washington, circa late September 2023, it’s all about the impending government shutdown. Below is all you should […]
Exclusive Member Follow-up on USPS Incentive Proposal: Key Questions Answered
We’ve received a few questions following yesterday’s announcement of the USPS proposal for a new mail volume incentive. Below you’ll find these questions answered. For reference, you can find the original announcement beneath it… Question/Issue #1: There’s a fair bit of flip-flopping between postal fiscal years and calendar years. Please clarify. Answer: In its announcement, […]
Member Exclusive: ACMA’s Legal Corner – The Flood of New State Privacy Statutes Mounts
By David Swetnam-Burland & Adam Mooney, Brann & Isaacson In the first half of 2023, Indiana, Tennessee, Montana, Florida, and Texas all passed new consumer privacy laws. Although Florida’s law will mostly trouble billion-dollar businesses, Texas and Tennessee have taken approaches that may cause some new headaches for many sizes of companies — and sooner than you might think. […]
Member Exclusive: ACMA’s Legal Corner – CA Update & State Income Tax Developments
By Martin I. Eisenstein, Brann & Isaacson We discussed in our December 2022 column the law suit brought by the ACMA against the California Franchise Tax Board (“FTB”) to obtain a declaration that the Technical Assistance Advisory Memorandum (the “TAM”) the FTB issued on February 14, 2022 violated the federal statute, Public Law 86-272 (“PL 86-272”). In […]
All Members Urged to Attend Vital ACMA Meeting on the Future of Catalogs in the Mail
Please join us next Friday, August 4th at 11:00 am Eastern Time for a member discussion via Zoom on recent postal developments affecting catalog mail. This past week, we had a series of meetings with Postal Service officials, its regulator and the USPS inspector general, as well as postal staffers in Congress. As a result, we have […]
ACMA Member Exclusive: July MTAC Report
The July 18-19 meetings of the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) were held at USPS headquarters in Washington. ACMA tuned in to all sessions of interest to our membership. Below you will find our recap. Slide decks can be accessed from some of the sessions through linked headers. Click here for the complete agenda. USPS […]
Member Exclusive: ACMA’s Washington Newsletter, July 25, 2023
July 25, 2023, Volume I Issue 4 Welcome to the new edition of ACMA’s newsletter focused on Washington, D.C. goings-on that affect your business. As always, we welcome any member comments, criticism, requests for improvement, etc., by simply responding to this email. Executive Summary The UPS is on the verge of a huge strike, […]
Member Exclusive: ACMA’s Washington Newsletter, July 12, 2023
July 12, 2023, Volume I Issue 2 Welcome to ACMA’s new newsletter focused on Washington, D.C. goings-on that affect your business. Below is our latest edition. As always, we welcome any member comments, criticism, requests for improvement, etc., by simply emailing us your feedback. Executive Summary The Board of Governors of the US Postal […]
Member Exclusive: ACMA’s Washington Newsletter – June 20th
June 20, 2023, Volume I Issue 2 Executive Summary A noteworthy bipartisan bill to close a tax loophole that currently exists which allows China and other countries to import cheap products made by slave labor was introduced last week. Meanwhile, a state privacy measure awaits Texas Governor Abbott’s signature and a House Ways & […]
Member Exclusive: Change in Physical Standards for USPS Parcels
Dear Member: The USPS recently announced that effective July 9, 2023, it will change the specifications for machinable parcels as follows: Current specs to be considered machinable: dimensions within 27″ x 17″ x 17” and weighing less than 35 pounds New specs as of July 9th: dimensions within 22″ x 18″ x 15” and weighing less than 25 pounds No […]