Key Postal Update: 2026 Mail Growth Incentive, Unaudited Financials, and Postal Year in Review
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We’ve compiled the most critical updates from the latest postal developments to keep you informed of changes that may impact your postal operations, budget and mail strategy. Here’s a quick summary:
- Postage Setting Primer: Outlines how the process of how postage rates have been set from 1792 to today.
- USPS Petition to Modify the Market-Dominant Ratemaking System: How the USPS wants to replace the current inflation-based “price cap” system with a more flexible regulatory monitoring approach (eliminate the price cap).
- 2026 Mail Growth Incentive (MGI): January 1, 2026, marks the start of the Incentive Performance Period for the 2026 MGI program.
- USPS Services Updates: Why mail delivery on time service has taken a recent dip.
- USPS November Unaudited Financials: The Postal Service published its November unaudited financials with the PRC, as it does for every month that does not end a quarter.
- Update on the USPS Processing Network: The network modernization was announced back in March 2021 under the Delivery For America Plan (DFA). Since that time, there have been multiple USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) audits, Congressional reviews, and USPS-provided progress reports, both in the year 2022 and 2023.
- 2025 – A Postal Year in Review: With 2025 in the rearview mirror, it is worthwhile to review the year’s activities in the postal world. There have been many notable events and changes over the last year.
- A Personal Note: Deborah Damore’s reflections on a truly defining year.
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