WHAT: Pitney Bowes Inc. will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by employees and customers to commemorate the opening of its new mail services facility in Grand Prairie, Texas. After the ceremony,... View More
"Modify Intelligent Mail Container Barcode Construct." The USPS would like to enhance the current IMcb to include destination processing facility information in the barcode. Currently, the IMcb is comprised... View More
The Business Customer Gateway production environment will be unavailable on Sunday, July 24, 2011, from 12:00 am (CDT) to 8:00 am (CDT). During this window, all USPS services accessed through the Business... View More
ATLANTA, July 11, 2011 - UPS Mail Innovations, the business mail services unit of UPS (NYSE: UPS), today announced that tracking information for its shipments now is available on UPS.com, providing recipients... View More
Presort.com--Few institutions touch more Americans than the U.S. Postal Service, which delivers to 150 million homes and businesses six days a week. Letter carriers get to know our communities and customers,... View More
The audio recordings from the "PostalVision 2020" conference have been posted on this site. These files can be downloaded or streamed. The video recordings from the "PostalVision 2020" conference also... View More
This week we posted a final rule Federal Register that implements revenue protection procedures for mailpieces entered with shortpaid and unpaid Information Based Indicia (IBI) postage and for shortpaid... View More
In response to recommendations from a Mailers Technical Advisory Council (MTAC) workgroup, the Postal Service is improving our Mail Service Update (MSU) process. These improvements include expanding and... View More
WASHINGTON - Continuing its green innovation and leadership strategy, the U.S. Postal Service released its fiscal year (FY) 2010 Annual Sustainability Report, which demonstrated the agency had exceeded... View More
In a filing with the Postal Regulatory Commission, the USPS has announced the resignation of Alan Kessler from the agency's Board of Governors effective July 31. Kessler, a Democrat, was appointed to the... View More
Boulder, Colo., - July 6, 2011 - InfoPrint Solutions, a Ricoh company, today announced that PCI Group (Fort Mill, SC) has deployed multiple InfoPrint 4100s digital publishing platforms with Advanced Function... View More
Dead Tree Edition--In Donahoe's Answer to Postal Bailout Criticism, we noted the Postmaster General's recent article explaining that the U.S. Postal Service's financial straits are a creation of Congress... View More
Although the proliferation of digital marketing techniques has changed the way consumers research and complete their shopping decisions, direct mail is still a major source of information for many people,... View More
This final rule Federal Register provides a new option for mailers to combine Standard Mail® flats and Periodicals flats within the same bundle, when placed on pallets, and to combine bundles of Standard... View More
Wheeling, IL, July 1, 2011 - Bell and Howell (BH) today announced that it will completely support the USPS® QR Mobile Barcode Promotion on its NetSort® enabled sorters. The QR Barcode incentive... View More
Irregularities in drop ship forms can potentially delay mail acceptance, disrupting mailers' production and distribution schedules. When depositing mail at a USPS® destination entry facility, here... View More
There was an outage of the Business Customer Gateway application today between 10:05AM and 10:30AM CT that impacted mailer access to USPS services available through BCG and eDoc submission. Eagan has restarted... View More
Buffalo News--Few institutions touch more Americans than the U. S. Postal Service, which six days a week delivers mail to 150 million homes and businesses in big cities and remote areas. And we do more... View More
Recently, Periodicals mailers were notified through various channels that national, standardized Critical Entry Times (CET) have been established for destination entry Periodicals mail to provide better... View More