Due to severe weather conditions expected in the Washington DC Metro area starting on Monday, October 29, 2012, the TEM Release deployments for PostalOne!® and FAST applications are cancelled for Monday,... View More

Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit the East Coast on Monday, October 29, 2012. There may be major flooding, high winds and power outages throughout the East Coast. If PostalOne!® is unavailable in... View More

No, it's not a scam (despite the scam-like title!) In the 10/17/2012 Federal Register Notice, the USPS is proposing giving mailers back up to $5000 under a new incentive called the Full-Service Technology... View More

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E-commerce bytes--The race for same-day delivery is on, with eBay, Amazon, Walmart and other retailers all vying to get there first. Last week, the USPS said it was testing same-day delivery through a... View More

Federal Times--Despite maxing out a $15 billion line of credit with the U.S. Treasury last month, the U.S. Postal Service can scrape by at least through March. That's according to Ruth Goldway, chair of... View More

A"2013 Price Changes" webinar presentation by Jeff Williamson, Vice President of Pricing. This webinar will address the business impacts of the proposed "Mailing and Shipping Services Price Change Effective... View More

The planned Full-Service Release 11 deployments for PostalOne!®, eVS, FAST®, Program Registration, and SASP have been postponed. The PostalOne! Release 32.0 Production deployment originally scheduled... View More

USPS OIG--There has been a surplus in the U.S. Postal Service's Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) pension program since 1992. Most recently, the FERS surplus was projected to be $11.4 billion,... View More

Mark Bosler, Target Marketing--"We're in a deep financial crisis today because we have a business model that's tied to the past," Patrick Donahoe, USPS postmaster general, told The New York Times. "Our... View More

(Reuters) - The financially struggling United States Postal Service has hit its $15 billion borrowing limit for the first time ever, meaning it will have to rely on revenues from stamps and other products... View More

Postal News Blog--The US Postal Service has announced that its Every Door Direct Mail market test has been a success, and the product will become a permanent offering in January 2013. From today's Federal... View More

DC Velocity--The U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) proposed 2013 rate increases on shipping services will hit e-tailers fairly hard but take it somewhat easier on high-volume users of the USPS' Priority Mail... View More

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WASHINGTON - Beginning early next year, the Postal Service will introduce a First-Class Mail Global Forever Stamp. The new stamp will allow customers to mail letters anywhere in the world for one set price... View More

We are continuing to work on the technical issue impacting the Full Service MicroStrategy reporting environment. At this time we estimate that this will be resolved by Monday, October 15, 2012. At that... View More

The planned Full-Service Release 11 deployments for PostalOne!®, eVS, FAST®, Program Registration, and SASP has been postponed. The PostalOne! Release 32.0 "Production" deployment originally scheduled... View More

Postal News Blog--The US Postal Service plans to test a same day delivery service in select metropolitan areas beginning next month. The service would target online retailers. The USPS isn't publicly revealing... View More