According to the Marietta Times, "The reality is that e-mail, UPS, FedEx and other services, as well as the slow economy, have hit the postal service hard, and it is strapped by the ongoing mandate to... View More
From USPS Sr. V.P. Customer Relations Stephen Kearney: "With the exception of some minor modifications, the mailing standards governing contents of a publication eligible for periodicals pricing have not... View More
Dead Tree Edition wants to know: "The Postal Service claimed once again last week that it loses money on Standard flats mail, just five days after kicking off a huge discount program on - guess what? -... View More
DM News has reported that "Marketers and catalogers that rely on the mail to reach consumers decried the US Postal Service's proposed "exigent price increases," saying the rate hikes would have drastic... View More
Wheeling, Ill. and Norwich, Conn., July 12, 2010 - BÖWE BELL + HOWELL and Gunther International today announced an agreement whereby Gunther International will offer its customers disaster recovery... View More
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has reported that "Nearly 200 Pitney Bowes employees in Atlanta will lose their jobs, the mail processing and information technology firm announced Monday, apparent victims... View More
According to the Lansing State Journal, "the real problems with the Postal Service are actually concentrated on Capitol Hill. Congress, after all, tells the service to provide six days of mail delivery,... View More
Minonline has reported that "Despite organized resistance to the U.S. Postal Service's proposed 8% rate increase for periodical postage, the magazine industry may need to adjust to the new reality of pricing,... View More
According to Dead Tree Edition, "The Postal Service believes it can achieve significant savings by having letter carriers spend their entire shift delivering mail while other employees take over the carriers'... View More
The Press-Telegram has reported that "Rather than eliminating Saturday mail, we would encourage the U.S. Postal Service to get more creative about the ways it delivers information. It doesn't have to be... View More
According to the folks at Rag Content, the Postal Service has made a hell of a mess by filing not an exigency case but a combo case. "An exigency price case should not be a combination of classification... View More
Media Daily News has reported that "Advertiser optimism toward their media spending, which bottomed out a year ago, continues to rise and is now at the highest relative point since a well regarded research... View More
Philanthropy Today has reported that "Charities and businesses that rely heavily on mailings are banding together to fight a proposed increase in postal rates." Read the full story here... View More
Editor & Publisher has reported that "For newspapers, the proposed changes in postal rates are either a very bad thing or not so bad at all, depending almost entirely on what kind of newspaper is looking... View More
Earth Class Mail was built on the notion that businesses which receive a lot of important documents through old fashioned snail mail may benefit from the services it has to offer. The Seattle-based company,... View More
The Washington Post has notes that "The Affordable Mail Alliance, a new coalition representing more than 100 businesses and nonprofits opposed to price hikes, said it will tell regulators that USPS should... View More
Business Week has reported that "The Postal Service is using a legal provision that lets it propose rate increases greater than the rate of inflation under "exceptional or extraordinary" circumstances,... View More
According to the Postalnews Blog, "One of the periodic reports the USPS files with the Postal Regulatory Commission is a spreadsheet showing historic volume trends for the various classes of mail. The... View More
The New Statesman has noted that "Magazine publishers say the proposed increase in postage costs will make a "tremendous difference" to their business. The Magazine Publishers of America says it will take... View More