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The Power One Report
Issues
A quarterly letter on what freight, raw materials and labor are doing to the cost of running a shop. Every figure is dated and attributed. One issue so far.
The Power One Report, Issue No. 1
The USPS dimensional-divisor cut that did not make the headlines, the new UPS Ground Saver label fee, where polyethylene and containerboard actually landed this year, why palm and coconut moved apart, and New Jersey's 2026 labor rates.
Read the issueIn the next issue
- Whether the August polyethylene nomination was actually implemented, or went the way of the June nomination that did not stick.
- A current glycerin assessment — the most recent defensible reading runs out in April.
- A working-lifetime cost comparison of the wall dispensers actually on the market.
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What is in every issue
Three standing sections, four times a year. Anything we cannot source, we leave out and say so in the issue.
Pricing Notices
Dated changes to what you pay — USPS and UPS rate increases and surcharges, polyethylene and containerboard, the palm and coconut feedstocks that hand cleaners are made from, and New Jersey labor rates.
The arithmetic
Cost per wash, per liter, and dose sizes — worked in the open, including the numbers that do not flatter us.
From the bench
Failures worth knowing how to diagnose, and what actually fixes them.
From 2016 to 2020, Fred Gerstler wrote a pricing letter to One Pack’s customers. The Power One Report picks that up.
About the author
Fred Gerstler writes The Power One Report for StretchRite LLC of Lyndhurst, New Jersey. He wrote a pricing letter to One Pack's customers from 2016 to 2020; this continues it.