U.S. Postal Service in Crisis: Proposals to Prevent a Postal Shutdown. Live video will not be available until approximately 15 minutes prior to the scheduled hearing start time... View More
Washington Post-- Patrick Donahoe will beg for the life of the U.S. Postal Service Tuesday, a role he has known before. But when he addresses a congressional committee this time, his pleas will go beyond... View More
Sunday, Sept 4, 2011, the PostalOne! MicroStrategy reporting environment will be unavailable to internal and external users during the scheduled maintenance window of 4AM through 8AM CDT to allow for system... View More
Multichannel Merchant--Nearly one third of all Standard Mail in the past two months contained a QR code, thanks to a U.S. Postal Service summer promotion that ends today, according to Tom Foti, the agency's... View More
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer--The Postal Service has published its first quarterly report on the use of its newest product, Every Door Direct Mail. Most customers are new to the Postal Service... View More
Spring Global Mail has appointed Rudy van Rillaer as Vice President Global Operations, a management team position whose scope and responsibilities have been defined as a direct result of an extensive network... View More
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer--The Postal Service's network restructuring will add an extra day to most First Class Mail delivery standards. While it is theoretically possible for bulk First Class... View More
eCommerce Bytes--The U.S. Postal Service entered into a deal with eBay and China Post last year to help Chinese sellers send small packages to the U.S. in a much shorter period of time than regular international... View More
GoLocalProv--You may have heard that the US Postal Service is due to run out of money sometime in September. I've seen a fair number of articles moaning about how the advent of email and texting makes... View More
The USPS announces the withdrawal of the Proposed Rule, Revised: Changes to Move Update Standards, published in the Federal Register July 12, 2011. This Federal Register notice proposed the revision to... View More
At a recent Mailers Technical Advisory Council meeting, we announced that the revised proposed rule, Changes to Move Update Standards, published in the Federal Register on July 12, 2011, will be withdrawn... View More
Post&Parcel--Business technology and outsourcing company CSC has been awarded two contracts to manage mail transport equipment on behalf of the US Postal Service. The contracts are set to run for three... View More
Save the Post Office-- When Airmail was abolished in 1977, the Postal Service promised America, "All First-Class mail is going to fly." When Third-Class mail was changed to Single-Piece Standard in 1996... View More
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer--In a major effort to reduce costs to match projected revenue, the Postal Service has proposed eliminating overnight delivery of single-piece mail. The Postal Service... View More
This Sunday, Aug 28, 2011 PostalOne! will be unavailable due to system maintenance and deployment of a scheduled patch release (27.0.2). Please, be advised that the outage window is being expanded to begin... View More
The August 11, 2011, Postal Bulletin Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) article about the Reply Rides Free Incentive Program contains a URL for use by mail owners wishing to participate in the program. Since... View More
In November 2011 (Release 28) and January 2012 (Release 29), the Postal Service will release software for the PostalOne!® and Facility Access and Shipment Tracking (FAST®) systems that include... View More
