Just Announced: The Postal Service has made it known that the next price increase will be implemented on January 22, 2012. It will include both the competitive and market dominant price change together.
We do not know if this will eliminate the need for the May time frame that has been the traditional time for Market Dominate product price adjustments since the PAEA went into effect in 2007.
This increase / adjustment will be filed sometime in October 2011, and will most likely contain the CPI figure through September 2011. If the economy tanks, then there is a possibility that the USPS would file on Oct 14, to avoid the September figure and use the August 2011 figure.
Less than 12 months will have passed since the last price increase and there is a slight difference in the available price cap.
