Siemens announced that it has been awarded a $217.5 million fixed-price contract to provide key technologies of the Flats Sequencing Systems (FSS) contract from the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:... View More
May 25, 2007 The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) expressed its disappointment today at the refusal of the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to revise its recommendation for exorbitant postage increases... View More
Final Rule On Changes Now Posted Online The Postal Service is changing prices and mailing standards for Periodicals July 15. The new prices enhance efficiency, offer more choices and better ensure that... View More
The Rasmussen Report on customer satisfaction with the USPS. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/us_postal_service_gets_favorable_reviews_despite_higher_price_of_stamps... View More
Multichannel Merchant has an interesting piece on the finger-pointing that has escalated between the American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA) and the Direct Marketing Association. http://multichannelmerchant.com/news/ACMA-Greco-05212007/
The Postal Service is testing an additional application of the Seamless Verification System using Friend-To- Friend Mail postcards. The postcards will be bound into five magazines between May and December.... View More
The Postal Service is testing an additional application of the Seamless Verification System using Friend-To- Friend Mail postcards. The postcards will be bound into five magazines between May and December.... View More
The increase in postage rates that took effect May 14 has been the subject of numerous news stories purporting to analyze the size of the increase and speculating about the future role of hard-copy communication.... View More
WHAT: The U.S. Postal Service will demonstrate a variety of products, services, and programs that make the mail more useful, convenient, accessible and environmentally friendly, including: ·... View More
The USPS is offering a new site usps.com/pricing to provide an overview of the pricing changes that go into effect on Monday. The site consists of six easy, tabbed sections: 1. Home - general overview... View More
Commenting before the Postal Regulatory Commission regarding the R2006 BOG remand, the U.S. Postal Service recommends reducing the rate on minimum-per-piece rated pieces and the rate for piece/pound rated... View More
San Francisco, CA-- Shipping giant UPS (NYSE:UPS) was hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming the shipping giant routinely uses an inaccurate measurement system that causes tens of thousands... View More
All the World's a Stage for Demonstrating "Out of the Box" Ideas From Bangor, Maine, to Beijing, China, if you came up with an idea that turned into a business that took off, UPS wants to hear from you.... View More
DHL was determined to be the winner of the Great Package Race for 2007. Conducted by Georgia Institute of Technology's Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering's supply chain program, DHL... View More
The Governors of the Postal Service announced today they accepted the decision of the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to modify two of its earlier rate case recommendations: lowering the price of the... View More
USPS adopts new design For the first time since 1995, the Postal Service's familiar and trusted products for shipping domestically and internationally will have a new look. The Postal Service has redesigned... View More
On April 27, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) issued its recommended decision on two of the three reconsideration issues requested by the Postal Service.The PRC agreed with the Postal Service's suggested... View More
The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service will meet in Washington, D.C., at Postal Service Headquarters, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, on May 1-2, 2007. The public is welcome to observe the Board's open... View More
In a letter to House and Senate postal oversight committee members, the Mailers Council's Executive Director asked that Congress join in opposition to a possible USPS plan to file for another rate increase... View More